Impact Cratering

The Speaker for this months meeting of the Lake County Astronomical Society is Jim Hopkins, retired Professor of Astronomy at Joliet Junior College with a Masters Degree from Eastern Illinois University. Jim was also a teacher at Naperville High School and at the College of DuPage. He has given over 100 presentations on Astronomy over the years in the Chicagoland area. In a world where you can be anything. be kind...The talk will cover the nature of impactors, the creation of craters, the nature of the evidence that supports the impact theory, and mass extinctions related to cratering.

Afterwards, weather permitting, Members of LCAS will show the night sky to guests through their powerful telescopes.