Free Astronomy Magazine March-April 2020

MARCH-APRIL 2020 by bringing him to an astronomy speech addressed to adults. Dissemination is one of the objec- tives of the Asociación Astronómica Hubble, as clearly stated within its statutes from its founding in Novem- ber 2001. For this rea- son, we take great care in the smallest details in readings, conferences, semi- nars, and public ob- servations in schools and institutes. Our goal is not only to spread astronomy in- formation, but also to communicate it cor- rectly, in a bidirec- D issemination Outreach and observation activi- ties in the Castle of Jaén on the occa- sion of the Interna- tional Year of Astronomy 2009. C omparison between the size of the Moon in the apogee and perigee. As popularizers, one of the funniest anecdotes we can tell is of a child’s fear during a speech about the prob- ability of an impact of an asteroid, since he had not understood the meaning of “probability” and we could only convince him of the low probability with examples under- standable at his 8 or 9 years of age - an oversight, perhaps, of his parents

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