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===================================================== theWoman Astronomer, Where Woman Are The Stars! *********************************************************** In This Issue: Seeing in the Dark, a film by Timothy Ferris. Coming to PBS on September 19, 2007, 8:00 p.m. (check local listings). Award winning author Timothy Ferris wrote, produced, and narrates this film based on his 2002 book Seeing in the Dark: How Amateur Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril. “Seeing in the Dark is meant to alter, inspire and illuminate the lives of millions,” said Ferris. “It introduces viewers to the rewards of first-person hands-on astronomy--from kids learning the constellations to amateur astronomers doing professional-grade research in discovering planets and exploding stars. I hope it will encourage many viewers to make stargazing part of their lives, and a few to get into serious amateur astronomy.” Two women astronomers are also in the film. Debra Fischer, exo-planet discoverer, and Barbara Wilson, “one of the most sharp-eyed visual observers on Earth.” This DVD and book are available at Amazon.com. Support theWoman Astronomer by clicking through to Amazaon.com from our
site: *********************************************************** To check it out, go to: ===================================================== Since those days in the early 1960s, Mars has held a particular fascination for me. I've attempted to remember when this interest first presented itself and, to the best of my recollection, I think it lies in a science fiction novel. Read the rest of my musing here: Advertisement: Astronomy-Mall.com *********************************************************** Read the rest of the posted Letters to the Editor at: Advertisement: Astronomy Technology Today, the
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subscription price of $12. The price is good through August 31. To subscribe go to: *********************************************************** 1866-1952 “The human brain is greater yet, because it can comprehend it all.” Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Maury was born in Cold Spring, New York on March 21, 1866. Her father, Mytton Maury, was a protestant minister and her mother, Virginia Draper Maury, was Henry Draper’s sister. Maury graduated with honors from Vassar College in 1887 and was a student of Maria Mitchell. Due to the endowment to Harvard College Observatory for the Henry Draper Catalogue project by her aunt Anna Draper, Maury was hired by Pickering as a computer in 1888. She was responsible for cataloguing and computing stellar spectra for stars in the northern hemisphere. Maury, however, was not satisfied to merely perform mundane calculations. Read the entire article here: Advertisement: Featuring SkyWatcher Tours. See the 2008 eclipse in Mongolia, or the aurora in Alaska, or go to the Southern Skies Star
Party. *********************************************************** ===================================================== Who is Urania? To read the Muse’s reply, go to: ===================================================== This paper was written December 8, 2003. Geology of the Solar System class, Planetary Sciences Department, University of Arizona, Professor David Kring. Impact cratering is a cataclysmic process that occurs on every body throughout the Solar System. The effect it has on each body, however, is not the same. There are many factors to be considered when studying craters on a planet. There is the type of impactor, as well as the characteristics of the planet that is impacted. Though all planets experience geologic processes, not all of those processes occur on all planets. One process, however, does. That process is impact by comets or asteroids which leave scars on the terrain in the form of craters. Read the entire story here: ===================================================== Go here to find sites of women astronomers, reports about the status of women in astronomy, and organizations and
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