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"Renshaw receives NASA Moon Rock Certification"
Posted Tuesday, March 30, at 1:06 PM
Kenneth Renshaw, NASA Solar System Ambassador/Saturn Observation Campaign Member, of Piggott, recently earned a NASA Certification at a workshop at Three Rivers Community College. The workshop, which certifies educators to borrow actual Moon rocks from the priceless Apollo collection owned by the Federal Government/NASA and meteorite samples, was conducted by John Weis of Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama.
Renshaw, an adjunct music faculty member at TRCC, conducts presentations for area schools and organizations as a member of these 2 volunteer NASA programs. Depending on availability, and with a 6+ week notice, Renshaw will be able to use these actual Moon rocks/meteorites for presentations. For more information on a free presentation, contact Renshaw at 870-598-7930 or renshaw@newwavecomm.net.
Matilda Pfeiffer Museum Presents Program on the Paragould Meteorite On Wednesday, February 17, at 3 PM, the Matilda Pfeiffer Museum (next to the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum, off West Clay Street, Piggott) will present Piggott resident and NASA Solar System Ambassador, Kenneth Renshaw, in a presentation about the famed Paragould Meteorite...
International Year of Astronomy The International Year of Astronomy 2009, declared by the United Nations and the International Astronomical Union, came to a close Jan. 9/10 in a ceremony in Italy. A podcast for the IYA2009, The 365 Days of Astronomy, however, was so popular around the world, that it has been extended another year. ...
The Space Station and Shuttle Fly Over Piggott
Crater on planet Mercury named after writer with Piggott connection Names for 16 new craters on the planet Mercury, studied by NASA spacecraft Messenger, have recently been approved by the International Astronomical Union. One of these is Hemingway, named after writer Ernest Hemingway, a frequent visitor of Piggott in the 1930's...
Update-Space Shuttle For the 5th time, the Endeavour space shuttle launch (STS-127) was scrubbed due to weather yesterday (July 13, and in June due to a hydrogen leak). An attempt will be made tomorrow, July 15, at 5:03, Piggott time. Launch coverage is on NASA-TV (http://www.nasa.gov/55644main_NASATV_Windows.asx). The shuttle will go to the International Space Station, in orbit 230 miles above the earth, to complete the Japanese KIBO laboratory...
America in Space-June 2009: Launch to Moon America in Space-by Kenneth Renshaw, NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador, Piggott, Arkansas June 2009 This month's America in Space will see our nation returning to the Moon after many years of waiting, as well as a postponement of the shuttle launch of Endeavour...
Shuttle Atlantis Lifts Off Monday The most complex invention in the history of the human race, the Space Shuttle Atlantis, lifted off from Kennedy Space Center, Monday, May 11, at 1:01 PM (Piggott time). It will dock with the Hubble Space Telescope on Wednesday, for the final series of repairs/upgrades for the legendary instrument, hopefully extending (and upgrading) its ability to do astronomical research another 5+ years before it will be deorbited. The 11 day mission will involve 5 space walks...
Spectacular Double Conjunction
America in Space-April 2009 This spring, our nation's space program is seeing progress toward a human return to the Moon, a spacecraft to find earth-like planets elsewhere in our galaxy, preparations for the last shuttle flight to the Hubble Space Telescope, a continuation of a successful probe around Saturn, as well as other projects...
Podcast-Exploring Space from Space For the second time this spring, I have been honored with the opportunity to release a podcast for the International Year of Astronomy site, "365 Days of Astronomy". This podcast is about the dozens of current spacecraft now being used for astronomical research, including Sun orbiters, planetary flybys, planetary landers/rovers, and the telescopes in Earth orbit. ...
America in Space-February 2009 The 2009 has opened up with a number of discoveries in astronomy and a number of projects planned in our nation's space program. To start off with the big, the measured motions of stars within our home galaxy, the Milky Way, has led to the discovery that it is about 50% more massive than previously thought--the Milky Way is about 3 trillion (that's 3,000,000,000,000) times the mass of our Sun. ...
Paragould Meteorite on International Podcast Here is an article about a podcast I did last week for the International Year of Astronomy. Due to the recent massive ice storm, I guess the rest of the world heard it first! It's still available online. Local Astronomer Featured in International Podcast...
2009-International Year of Astronomy, Sunset Planets The United Nations and the International Astronomical Union have declared 2009 the International Year of Astronomy, as exactly 400 years ago, Galileo first used a telescope to observe the heavens. He discovered the moons of Jupiter, craters on the Moon, rings of Saturn, and the phases of Venus...
Winter Begins Sunday, December 21/Rare Conjunction in Sky I have made my first mistake in 2008 (HA!)-I will have to print a retraction to the blog of last week-winter actually begins shortly after 6 on Sunday morning, Dec. 21. Speaking of the Winter/Christmas season, I'd like to invite everyone to the Choir Christmas Program at First Methodist Church, Piggott, Sunday morning at 9:45. We have a lot of wonderful singers, accompanied by Sandra Routszong on the organ, narration by Judy Nettles and David Gregory, under the direction of "yours truly"...
Tomorrow is Winter in the Northern Hemisphere The earth's north-south axis is tilted 23 1/2 degrees with respect to its orbit around the Sun. It, therefore, tilts its northern half 23 1/2 degrees toward the Sun once a year (the first day of Summer), and away from the Sun once a year (the first day of Winter, which is 6:04 AM Central Standard Time tomorrow, December 19). At the equinoxes (Spring or Vernal, and Autumnal), the Sun is right over the Earth's equator), and the day is equal in length to the night...
America in Space-November 2008 October and November mark anniversaries of important events in space history, the end of a historic Mars mission, as well as the beginning of commercialization of earth orbit. On Sept. 29, the European space shuttle cargo craft, the Jules Verne, full of waste products, entered the earth's atmosphere over the South Pacific, giving scientists information on the characteristics of matter burning up in the atmosphere...
First Photo of a Planet Around Another Star/Shuttle Launch/Astronaut to be in Jonesboro This week, astronomers with the Hubble Space Telescope have released the first visible-light photo in all of human history, showing a planet around another star (about 3 times the size of Jupiter), at Fomalhaut, a bright nearby star. The planet is about a billion times dimmer than the star it orbits. Astronomers also released an infrared photo of 3 planets around another star...
A Sight Never Seen By Human Eyes Until this morning (Oct. 7), parts of the surface of Mercury in this photo have never been seen before. This is a spectacular shot made 1 1/2 hours after the NASA spacecraft, Messenger, made a very close flyby (around 125 miles from the 800 degree F. ...
News Flash: It's Snowing on Mars! (really!) In several updates on Space and Astronomy this past week: 1. Snow has been detected falling from clouds on Mars with the Phoenix lander. None has been seen hitting the ground, although this will be monitored. Phoenix's onboard laboratory has detected molecules on Mars that indicate past presence of liquid water (and life??). Ice is now at the landing site about 3 inches under the surface...
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Kenneth Renshaw
NASA/JPL
Solar System Ambassador/Saturn Observation Campaign
Kenneth is one of 494 volunteer educators and astronomers who donate their time to educate America's youth, and the general public, about astronomy and the U.S. space program.
Organized in 1999 by NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab,it focuses on spacecraft built by the JPL such as Voyager, Mars Rover, Galileo, Cassini as well as the Hubble Space Telescope.
Renshaw is one of four ambassadors in Arkansas, and makes presentations to all age and experience groups from pre-school to university science level.
His official NASA website it
www2.jpl.nasa.gov/ambassador/profiles/Kenneth_Renshaw.htm
His email address is renshaw@newwavecomm.net
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