[SEMCO] Astronomy: Planet Quest: The Search for Another Earth

[Teresa Izzo]

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PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE 
RELEASE 
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Jan. 16, 
2015 
Teresa Izzo
508-896-3867, ext. 137
      tizzo at ccmnh.org

The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History presents
Planet Quest: The Search for Another Earth with Dr. Chuck Kunesh


BREWSTER, MA­The Cape Cod Museum of Natural 
History in Brewster, MA will be hosting speaker 
Dr. Chuck Kunesh who will be giving a 
presentation on astronomy, Sunday, February 15 at 1pm.

Dr. Kunesh’s presentation will first explore the 
major and minor planets that orbit the sun in our 
own solar system, and then look back at what 
people from ancient times through the 20th 
century thought about the possibility of other 
solar systems around other stars. He will discuss 
how astronomers discovered the first Jupiter-like 
planets orbiting other stars by using something 
called the “radial velocity method”, how the 
Kepler spacecraft has discovered thousands of 
additional planets by using called the “transit 
method”, and the future plans that astronomers 
have to find more Earth-like planets around 
nearby stars and to look for evidence of life on those planets.

Chuck Kunesh is from western Pennsylvania and 
received his Ph.D. from the University of 
Pittsburgh in physical chemistry. His career was 
spent conducting and managing industrial chemical 
research, but ever since he was a child his real 
passion has always been astronomy. Chuck is a 
member of the Lehigh Valley Amateur Astronomy 
Society in Allentown, PA and has given numerous 
talks on astronomy and space travel in schools 
and at astronomy events. He currently resides in 
Bethlehem, PA, but spends as much time as 
possible at his vacation home on Cape Cod.

  Free with Museum Admission
  For more information please call the Museum at 508-896-3867 xt. 133


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Teresa Izzo
Program Coordinator
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
869 Main St./Rte. 6A
Brewster, MA 02631
508-896-3867 x137
508-896-8844 - fax 
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