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Free activities for all the family - telescope viewing sessions, get hands-on with meteorites, comet making demonstrations, find out about lichens in space, design your own mini Mars marauder, expert talks, storytelling sessions, free star guides and activity packs.
Planetarium Director Dr Tom Mason has over 40 years experience working with meteorites. He will show you how to identify meteorites and also provide examples of the most commonly misidentified objects which are not meteorites. On display for the first time will be the Planetarium’s latest lunar meteorite acquisition, as well as a fragment of Mars and various other specimens. Feel free to bring along any rock samples that you would like Dr Mason to identify.
National Museum Cardiff is running a day of astronomy-themed activities, talks and displays. Hear talks about the world's largest telescopes, and new discoveries from the Herschel Space Observatory.
Experience stargazing through the ages using replicas of Galileo and Newton's telescopes. Think you've found a meteorite? Bring it in and we'll identify it! Explore the Museum's meteorite collection. Use an impact simulator to discover the effects of a meteorite hit on your town! Find out about using large robotic telescopes with Faulkes Telescope Project. Follow a trail into our galleries to discover a Moon rock collected by astronauts. Make your own star patterns in our constellations workshops. See the planets on a giant Solar System model. Find out about local astronomical societies.
Lurking out there, in orbit around our star, and occasionally visiting from the interstellar space beyond, are millions of asteroids and comets. Potentially lethal debris from the birth of the Solar System, they could wipe out all life on our planet. Find out more about them, where to find them in the night sky and when The Big One might strike; followed by a chance to see an asteroid (and perhaps a comet) for yourself through our telescopes (weather permitting).
Visitors can find out more about our galaxy by taking a look at the stars through a variety of professional telescopes, visit distant corners of the universe in the Immersive Vision Theatre (a domed cinema screen), see live feeds from observatories around the world and view real meteorites through microscopes.
For younger visitors, there will be a range of activities, including a workshop about the locations of the Moon landings and astronomy-themed colouring in.
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