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The Nelson Astronomical Society is hosting a film evening at the Suter Theatre on the evening of December 3rd, with two very well rated astronomical documentaries being shown: "Messengers" and "The Farthest". "Messengers" (45 minutes) A new, immersive documentary by Canadian director Jeffrey Zablotny, MESSENGERS features the South Pole neutrino experiment as part of a surreal, […]
"The Final Club Dark Sky Park night gathering at the Wai-iti Dark Sky Park for 2025 will take place as an end of year celebration. (at 437/439 Wakefield- Kohatu highway, Wai Iti, south of Wakefield). Date is Friday 21st November 2025. Postponement night Sat 22nd if the weather is poor on Friday, or stay two […]
By studying World War I battlefields, Charles Gifford who was a teacher at Wellington College developed the theory that lunar craters were formed by impacts. At the conclusion of the war the favoured theory was the lunar craters were volcanic. Gifford used mathematics to explain how meteors gave rise to craters.
