CWU Physics Professor and Student Featured in Air&Space Smithsonian

  • December 13, 2017

Physics professor Bruce Palmquist and student Jessica Kisner were featured in “Planetoid Detectives,” in Air & Space Smithsonian. The article is about a collaboration between professional astronomers and high school and college students to observe trans-Neptunian Objects.

Illustration: An artist's rendition of a trans-Neptunian Object imagines the sun in the far, far distance. Courtesy of NASA


Read the entire story in Air & Space Smithsonian.

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