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Exploring the Icy Worlds of the Solar System (Adults)

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Michelle Nichols-Yehling will discuss the many different ices that may be found all over our Solar System.

Ice - it's not just the stuff you shovel off the sidewalk! Many different ices are all over our Solar System and it is really...cool...stuff to study. We will investigate ices on hot planets and cold comets, moons made mostly of ice, flowing and floating glaciers, and even ice volcanoes.

Michelle Nichols-Yehling is Director of Public Observing at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, IL, and has worked at the Adler since June 1995. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Master of Education degree in Curriculum and Instruction from National-Louis University. Ms. Nichols leads the Adler Planetarium's telescope, observatory, and public sky-observing initiatives and events. Before landing at the Adler Planetarium, Michelle worked at U.S. Space Camp (Titusville, FL), the Astronaut Memorial Planetarium (Cocoa, FL), and the Staerkel Planetarium (Champaign, IL). Since 1999, Michelle has been a popular local speaker, giving hundreds of presentations to more than 130 public libraries, community organizations, and senior living facilities in the Chicago suburbs, Indiana, and Alabama.

Ms. Nichols-Yehling's programs are geared toward adults, though a general recommendation is that programs would be appropriate for children ages 10 and up.

Photo credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI - Rugged, icy mountains and flat ice plains extending to Pluto’s horizon.

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