Tuesday, November 1, 2016: 2:00 PM-3:00 PM
203 A/B (Pennsylvania Convention Center)
Lead Speaker:
Pia Mohsen
People have wondered about the moon through the ages. Long before Google or NASA, the ancient Greeks used modeling to approximate the distance between Earth and the moon reasonably accurately. In this session, we examine how they achieved this over twenty-two hundred years ago.
Presentation Format: 8-10 Session