We hold our RMA Club Meetings on the third Thursday of each month at 7:30 pm, except December and August. We meet at the Roper Mountain Science Center in Greenville SC, on the top floor of the Wilkins Conference Center next to the Charles E. Daniel Observatory.
Our meetings are free of charge, open to visitors, and all levels of interest are welcome. An astronomy related topic is presented at every meeting either by a member or guest speaker. Questions and discussion are a part of our meetings.
Refreshments are served
Astrobiology: “Is There Anybody Alive Out There?”
NASA Volunteer, John Adams Hodge of Columbia, will conduct a
presentation for adults (children are welcome) that reviews
emerging concepts regarding locations where life might exist in
the Universe.
The talk will survey different “habitable zones” where life might
exist in the Solar System, and it will discuss discoveries and
findings from spacecraft launched by NASA and the European
Space Agency that have more closely delineated how and where
life could form in our Solar System. In addition, the presentation
will outline how new discoveries of exoplanet systems around
other stars have provided analogues for habitable zones capable
of producing extraterrestrial life in the Universe.
Mr. Hodge is a Registered Professional Geologist, environmental
lawyer, and pilot. He has degrees in Geology, Marine Geology,
Planetary Geology, and Law.