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Teens Explore NASA's Designs at the Bridgeport Public Library!

Bridgeport, WV – Teens will be recreating miniature versions of two of NASA’s satellites through paper craft. Teens will have the option of building either the NEAR Shoemaker or the Fermi spacecrafts out of card stock, designs courtesy of NASA. This event is free, but teens planning to attend are asked to register for the event at the library’s front desk. All teens, between the ages of thirteen and nineteen, are welcome to join us for this event and all other events for teens on Monday evenings from 6:00pm to 8:00pm.

If you have questions about teen programming, please contact Sara Nora at 304-842-8248. About NEAR Shoemaker The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous - Shoemaker (NEAR Shoemaker), named in honor of planetary scientist Gene Shoemaker, was designed to study the near Earth asteroid 433 Eros, one of the largest of the near Earth asteroids, from close orbit over a period of one year. The mission was the first-ever to orbit an asteroid and the first to touch down on the surface of an asteroid. The primary scientific objectives of NEAR were to return data on the bulk properties, composition, mineralogy, morphology, internal mass distribution and magnetic field of Eros. Secondary objectives include studies of regolith properties, interactions with the solar wind, possible current activity as indicated by dust or gas, and the asteroid spin state. Source: http://science1.nasa.gov/missions/near/ About Fermi Spacecraft and GBM The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, formerly GLAST, is opening the high-energy world of gamma-ray radiation to exploration. With Fermi, astronomers at long last have a superior tool to study how black holes, notorious for pulling matter in, can accelerate jets of gas outward at fantastic speeds. Physicists are able to study subatomic particles at energies far greater than those seen in ground-based particle accelerators. And cosmologists are gaining valuable information about the birth and early evolution of the Universe. Source: http://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/