Fall 2006 Picnic

The Broad Branch Road Campus (BBR) held its annual Fall picnic on Thursday, 26 October. The event was attended by staff members from DTM, GL, and Carnegie's P Street location. This year's theme was Halloween, and a costume contest took place with the winners receiving gift certificates to the Blues Alley Jazz Club. The contest winners were Andrew Carnegie (Penny Morrill) and Hugh Hefner (Garrett Huntress). As usual, BBR's Roy Dingus and staff did an excellent job catering the event. To view pictures from this event, click here.

Alan Boss is quoted in a Science News online article entitled, “Oversize Orb: Puffy planet poses puzzle.” The article discusses HAT-P-1b, an object located 450 light-years from Earth that may be the largest planet found to date. According to the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics team, the planet is 36 percent greater in diameter than Jupiter and resides just one-twentieth the distance from its parent star than Earth is from the Sun.