In-Person Badger Talk: Lunar and Meteorite Samples Show and Tell
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This is a free, in-person talk hosted on September 17, 2026 at 6:00 PM by Verona Public Library in Verona, WI. Registration is required for this event and can be done on the Verona Public Library website: https://verona.librarycalendar.com. This talk will not be held virtually.
Join Bennett Wilson of the UW-Madison Department of Geology for a discussion of the Moon and its surface and enjoy a unique opportunity to view samples of the Moon as well as meteorites!
Bennett Wilson's research explores how liquid water altered the earliest asteroids in our solar system, and the role these bodies may have played in the origin of life. Using meteorites and mission returned samples from hydrated asteroids, he targets alteration minerals with high-precision mass spectrometry and nanoscale spectroscopic techniques to understand how water-rock interactions produced new minerals and organic compounds. This work constrains the conditions under which biorelevant organics and minerals may have emerged on small planetary bodies.
For ages 12 - adult.
Registration required: https://verona.librarycalendar.com/event/lunar-and-meteorite-samples-show-and-tell-39648
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This program is part of series of events related to the exhibit "A New Moon Rises". Learn more at https://www.veronapubliclibrary.org/anmr.
"A New Moon Rises" was created by the National Air and Space Museum and the Arizona State University, and is organized for travel by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service.
Made possible locally by the Verona Public Library Endowment Fund.
Join Bennett Wilson of the UW-Madison Department of Geology for a discussion of the Moon and its surface and enjoy a unique opportunity to view samples of the Moon as well as meteorites!
Bennett Wilson's research explores how liquid water altered the earliest asteroids in our solar system, and the role these bodies may have played in the origin of life. Using meteorites and mission returned samples from hydrated asteroids, he targets alteration minerals with high-precision mass spectrometry and nanoscale spectroscopic techniques to understand how water-rock interactions produced new minerals and organic compounds. This work constrains the conditions under which biorelevant organics and minerals may have emerged on small planetary bodies.
For ages 12 - adult.
Registration required: https://verona.librarycalendar.com/event/lunar-and-meteorite-samples-show-and-tell-39648
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This program is part of series of events related to the exhibit "A New Moon Rises". Learn more at https://www.veronapubliclibrary.org/anmr.
"A New Moon Rises" was created by the National Air and Space Museum and the Arizona State University, and is organized for travel by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service.
Made possible locally by the Verona Public Library Endowment Fund.
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