{"id":811,"date":"2019-09-23T12:04:48","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T16:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/?p=811"},"modified":"2023-11-02T15:14:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T19:14:41","slug":"library-co-sponsors-sept-26-lecture-on-scientific-legacy-of-apollo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/2019\/09\/23\/library-co-sponsors-sept-26-lecture-on-scientific-legacy-of-apollo\/","title":{"rendered":"Library Co-Sponsors Sept. 26 Lecture on Scientific Legacy of Apollo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On September 26, Dr. Marc Favata, Chair of the Physics and Astronomy Department at Montclair State University, will deliver a lecture on \u201cThe Scientific Legacy of Apollo\u201d at 7pm in Montclair&#8217;s Center for Environmental and Life Sciences, Room 120.<\/p>\n<p>The primary goal of the Apollo missions was &#8220;landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.&#8221; But the Apollo astronauts also left several scientific experiments on the Moon and returned with 842 pounds of lunar materials. What did we learn from this? Dr. Favata&#8217;s presentation will focus on a few scientific questions that were informed by the scientific efforts of the Apollo astronauts including the formation of the Moon, the seismology &amp; composition of the Moon, and Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) and its role in testing general relativity.<\/p>\n<p><em>Following the lecture is Star Gazing\/Telescope Night (Weather Permitting)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>This event has passed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Apollo 11&#8221; by US Department of State is licensed under CC PDM 1.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 26, Dr. Marc Favata, Chair of the Physics and Astronomy Department at Montclair State University, will deliver a lecture on \u201cThe Scientific Legacy of Apollo\u201d at 7pm in Montclair&#8217;s Center for Environmental and Life Sciences, Room 120. The primary goal of the Apollo missions was &#8220;landing a man on the Moon and returning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4365,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions\/4365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}