ORION meeting to be held June 20
The next ORION Meeting will take place at 7 p.m. Monday, June 20, at the City Room of the McNalley-Coffee Building (the main building) of the Oak Ridge Roane State Community College Campus.
The meeting is open to the public and it will be a hybrid meeting (in-person plus Zoom), according to a news release.
If you want to participate via Zoom, follow this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88528735960?pwd=KzY4bnBHcjlhTzg3L3pOcjY0TFovUT09
or use the following: Meeting ID: 885 2873 5960 and Passcode: 716689.
The program will be on the Heritage Planetarium in Blount County and will be given by Forrest Lee Erickson. The program will be a presentation on the 30-inch dome digital projection Planetarium at the Heritage High School in Blount County, Tennessee. This Planetarium has been inactive since 2010.
Recent Blount County Board of Education (BOE) resolution appears to doom it to destruction.
Erickson will describe the history of the planetarium and the fall into disuse. He also will cover the recent and unsuccessful efforts to interest the BOE and County Commission in the value of the Planetarium.
Forrest Lee Erickson is a resident of Blount County, a Friend of the Heritage Planetarium since 1998, and a longtime member of the Smoky Mountain Astronomical Society.
ORION is an amateur science and astronomy club centered in Oak Ridge.
This article originally appeared on Oakridger: Next ORION meeting to be held June 20
