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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=266 height=144 style='width:2.7708in;height:1.5in' src="cid:image002.jpg@01D3BA0A.948C2C50" align=left hspace=12 alt="RMMS_Logo_Color_832121_600pix_3_inches_wide copy.tif" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_2"><![endif]><span style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Elephant'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>The Rocky Mountain Map Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to the study and appreciation of maps and other items of cartographic interest. The Society was formed in 1991 and is based in Denver, Colorado.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Elephant'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:right'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Elephant'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h1><span style='font-size:20.0pt;color:#C45911'>Tuesday, March 20, 2018 – Catherine Olkin: “Mapping Pluto and its Moons”<o:p></o:p></span></h1><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width=294 valign=top style='width:220.5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#C45911'><img width=261 height=313 style='width:2.7187in;height:3.2604in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D3AE3D.C01DE8A0"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#C45911'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#C45911'>Catherine Olkin<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#C45911'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#C45911'>5:30 PM at Denver Public Library, 5<sup>th</sup> Floor, Gates Room <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#C45911'>Free and open to the Public<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td width=330 valign=top style='width:247.5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>Cathy Olkin is a planetary scientist at Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, CO. Her main topic of research is the outer solar system, specifically planetary atmospheres and surfaces. She is the Deputy Project Scientist for NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Deputy Principal Investigator for NASA’s Lucy mission. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>The New Horizons mission provided the first close-up images of Pluto and its moons in 2015. It is currently en route to encounter a small icy body in the outer solar system with the provisional name 2014 MU69. The spacecraft will return images and data on 2014 MU69 after its flyby in 2019.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'>NASA’s Lucy mission was just chosen in a competitive process for flight in 2021. The mission will visit Trojan asteroids – objects that share an orbit with Jupiter. 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