“Dudley Night” at the University at Albany (SUNY)

Title:  The Earth’s Moon and Conspiracy

 The Moon will be observed (weather permitting) using the university’s 16-inch cassegrain telescope located on the roof of the Earth Science building.  Beginning at 7:00 PM in Lecture Center 1, Professor John Delano will present a 30-minute summary of features on the Moon, and major scientific results from analysis of samples returned from the Moon by the 6 Apollo missions that landed there.  Apollo lunar samples will be available for people to closely examine.  At 9:00 PM in Lecture Center 1, Professor Delano will also discuss the infamous Fox Entertainment Group’s program “Conspiracy Theory: Did we land on the Moon?”  That program, which was first broadcast in February 2001, interviewed “experts” who claimed to have evidence that the Apollo landings had been faked by NASA, probably in cooperation with the CIA.  We’ll take a careful look at the claims of these “experts”, and then you can decide where the fraud lies.

 Lecture Center 1 is located near the Earth Science building on the uptown campus at 1400 Washington Avenue.  A detailed map of the university can be found at the following address:  http://www.albany.edu/maps/uptownmap.html   Parking (free) will be available in the State Quad parking lot located about 300 feet east of the Earth Science building.

 Professor Delano is the Vice President of the Dudley Board of Trustees.  He is also a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, and in the Department of Chemistry.  His research, which is funded by NASA, involves chemical and isotopic analysis of Moon samples collected by the Apollo astronauts.