Our meetings are free for paid members.

Members of the public can attend once for free and are then encouraged to join.

Brief :

The Kuiper Belt is a group of small objects in space beyond Neptune. It suddenly ends at a point about 45 times the distance from Earth to the Sun. We don’t know why the Kuiper Belt ends so abruptly or why it ends at all. Other stars have belts that go much farther out. Why doesn’t ours?

Perhaps there is another belt of material even farther from the Sun that we haven’t discovered yet. In my presentation, I will talk about the possibility of a distant, undiscovered belt of material orbiting beyond 70 times the distance from the Earth to the Sun.

Bio:

Lowell Peltier is a current PhD student at the University of Victoria. Lowell was born and raised in Regina, Saskatchewan. He attended the University of Regina for two degrees, a BSc in Physics and an MSc in Physics/Astronomy, studying Vulcanoids (a theoretical population of asteroids orbiting very close to the sun). Lowell is now in Victoria studying the extreme opposite end of the Solar System, the Trans-Neptunian Region and the cold icy bodies found at extreme solar distances, while working toward his PhD.

Member meet n’ greet roundtable

After the main presentation we will be hosting a casual ’round table’ chat meet n’ greet for members, new and existing.

If you’re a new member please come and say hello!

We did this last year and found it very useful, not only for members to have a chance to interact, but also to get feedback from our members on the society. We’ll also hand out a questionnaire that was passed out at the AGM to collect further feedback from members.

Coffee and cookies will be available. Remember to bring your own mug for coffee!

Board members will be there to set up shortly after 6 if you’d like to come and help.