What do we really know about the outer solar system?

A public lecture by Dr Phil Sutton asks the question, what do we really know about the outer solar system? Of the thousands of spacecraft sent into space in the last 60 years only a handful have made it to Jupiter and beyond. The outer solar system stretches from around 5 – 100,000 times the average distance between the Sun and Earth.

We will take a journey through the outer planets into the relatively unknown outer solar system. Here, recent spacecraft images are revealing binary asteroids and even some with ring systems around them.

The lecture is part of the Distinguished Maths and Physics Public Lecture series and will take place on Tuesday 1st October 2019, from 6 pm – 7:20 pm in the Newton Lecture Theatre INB0114 in the Isaac Newton building.

Tickets are free booking is recommended : https://lincoln-maths-phys-public.org/2019/08/20/3rd-annual-edmund-weaver-lecture-in-astronomy/