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Johannesburg Centre,
Astronomical Society of Southern Africa
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Editorial Well another ASSA year has come and gone - the Johannesburg Centre's AGM and bring 'n braai was enjoyed by all attendees. The majority of your previous committee has been re-elected together with two stalwarts in the persons of Ed Finlay and Melvyn Hannibal both of whom have served on previous occasions. Welcome back to the committee and may this be a great year for the Jo'burg Centre. Eric and Peter have submitted another SSSH article together with a useful loose insert which has the eyepiece views as well as general skymaps of the area(s) of interest. Eric has also secured permission to reprint an article from the Engineering News on Sir David Gill, whose name should be familiar to all of you who regularly attend meetings at the old Observatory. We thank that Publication and the Author of the article, Don Visser, for their kind permission. Want to find out more about Hazardous Asteroid 1999 AN10? - well then, read Bill Wheaton's informative article which covers this and other topics of interest, plus news of some missions currently in progress at NASA. Brian, as always, informs us of pertinent overhead happenings in 'The Sky' which covers the August through September timeframe and Eben has tackled a controversial subject - the Evolution of the Galaxies. As he puts it - it is "…an astronomical topic about which there is the least amount of agreement." We think he is being very kind with this polite understatement!!! There are many Snipperts of AstroInfo gleaned from the Astronomical media this month and where-ever possible, we have supplied URLs ( website addresses ) where you may read a more detailed account of the news in question. The links will also be found on our own website. As this is the start of a new ASSA Jo'burg Centre subscription year, a subscription form has been included with this copy of Canopus. More detail may be found in the notices section. Here's wishing clear skies to all our members for the year ahead. The Editor Chris chris@aqua.co.za |
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