An Immigrant’s Journey into the Cosmos: A Memoir
Dr. N.Y. Misconi, an astornomer, shares the journey from Iraq to the American Space Center
Available at:
Read the Book
While teaching at the University of Baghdad, Dr. N.Y. Misconi had a dream of immigrating to the United States of America.
Dr. Misconi’s memoir, “An Immigrant’s Journey into the Cosmos” highlights the political history in Baghdad, Iraq and the Middle East and the struggles of living there during religious and political unrest. After immigrating to the United States he continued studying astronomy.
Having spent decades working on high profile missions such as Pioneer 10 and 11, Skylab and Space Shuttle Columbia, Dr. Misconi is now an accomplished astronomer and solar system researcher.
Read a Free Chapter
Read the Book
Dr. Donald Brownlee
"One of Dr. Misconi most significant publications was his 1979 Nature paper on streaming of interstellar grains into the solar system. The paper predicted that interstellar dust should stream into the solar system from the direction, the then detectable interstellar gas and it also described the interaction of the extrasolar particles with the solar wind and the IP (Interplanetary) magnetic field. The paper was timely and highly prophetic as the stream of interstellar dust was detected just a few years later by instruments on the Ulysses and Galeleo spacecraft."
Dr. Seung Soo Hong
"I still remember in one of those brain storming sessions he suggested to fire a "big gun" from a satellite to a nearby asteroid and to observe the scattered light of the Sun and man-made source by the dust excavated from the asteroid surface. The Space Astronomy Laboratory team couldn't materialize the idea then. But to think back, this was a brilliant idea, with which one can characterize the nature of ligorith particles for a reasonable price".
Astronaut Dr. Buzz Aldrin
Commended the author citing his proposal to transform the Space Shuttle fleet, before retiring it, into a space tourism fleet, which would generate profits for NASA.
Schedule of Presentations and Book Signings
Date
April 13th, 2016
April 15th, 2016
May 6th, 2016
May 10th, 2016
May 19th, 2016
June 6th, 2016
June 23rd, 2016
July 15th, 2016
September 20th, 2016
October 21st, 2016
Astronomy Club
Central Florida, Seminole
Florida Institute of Technology
NEFAS Jacksonville, Florida
Alachua County, Florida
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Warren, Michjgan
Ford Astronomy Club, Dearborn, Michigan
University Lowbrow, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Astronomy Club at the Villages, Florida
Southern Cross Astronomical Society, Florida International University
Contact E-Mail
skybob102@hotmail.com
kturner@fit.edu
roger.curry@comcast.net
andy.howell@alachuaastronomyclub.org
graaa@graaa..org
dpartin@comcast.net
dpartin@comcast.net
cdnielsen1@aol.com
rbs99@comcast.net
barbyager@aol.com
