Does the ancient Mayan calendar
really predict the end of the world on Dec. 21, 2012? Learn the truth at
"The Great 2012 Scare: Fact vs. Fantasy" from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
on Wed., Nov. 14 at Saint Xavier
University.
Astrophysicist Kevin
Manning, Ph.D., will guide attendees through the facts and fiction of the
end-of-the-world scare. The presentation will be held in the Bishop Quarter
Room of the Robert and Mary Rita Murphy Stump Library, located in Warde
Academic Center at SXU’s Chicago campus, 3700 W. 103rd St. This event is free
and open to the public.
Manning is a retired
astrophysicist who worked as a NASA consultant on the Chandra X-Ray
Observatory, NASA's flagship X-ray telescope launched in 1999, and with the
Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York. He received the Frank G. Brooks
Award for Excellence in Science Research.
For more information,
please contact Associate Librarian Dave Kohut at (773) 298-3355 or kohut@sxu.edu.
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