Baton Rouge Astronomical Society Meetings

The next meeting of The Baton Rouge Astronomical Society will held Monday, August 9th beginning at 7:00 pm at the Highland Road Park Observatory. The public is invited to attend.

The meeting topic is The Tyche Conjecture.

This month's meeting will feature a presentation from Dr. John J. Matese, Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. We discuss the possibility that there exists a Jovian mass solar companion orbiting in the Oort comet cloud. The putative companion has been dubbed Tyche, the good sister of Nemesis, by the WISE group (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) who have recently launched a satellite capable of detecting such an object for the first time. Observational evidence for, and against, the conjecture will be discussed.

For directions to the Observatory please visit this page.

Updated on Monday, July 19, 2010 7:45 AM