The 2,558th Meeting of the Society

June 4, 2027 at 8:00 PM

Powell Auditorium at the Cosmos Club

3I/ATLAS

What visitors from other star systems are teaching us

Darryl Z. Seligman

Assistant Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Michigan State University

Sponsored by Marlene Becky in Memory of Ivan Becky

About the Lecture

This lecture will discuss 3I/ATLAS and the other interstellar objects that have passed through the Solar System, how they were discovered and observed, what spectroscopy, photometry, dynamics, and outgassing have revealed, and what these few visitors may already be telling us about other planetary systems.

About the Speaker

Forthcoming.