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Melton Computer Club
Minutes of Annual General Meeting 16 January
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2019
1. Meeting started at 7.45pm.
2. Apologies received from Keith Allen & Geoff Griffith
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3. Minutes of 17 January 2018 were approved as a true record of the meet-
ing.
4. Matters Arising - No matters arising from the above minutes.
5. Chair’s Report
Barry Gilchrist entertained the members with an interesting view of the
world and this year’s topic centred around Size.
Size is everything and with the aid of a PowerPoint presentation, Barry
demonstrated that pretty well everything is relative to something else. For
example, the Sun is large compared to the Earth, however it pales into insig-
nificance relative to Alpha Scorpii A, which comes in at around 690 million
times larger than our Sun by volume.
The Milky Way galaxy within which, we reside is huge and if you are lucky
to see it by night, it is only a tiny proportion that is visible to the naked eye.
However, something much larger further out in the Universe is IC 1011, a
galaxy that is 6,000,000 light years wide making our Milky Way galaxy just
a pin prick in comparison. Just how big is the universe?
