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Astronomy Update
The latest happenings in the above and beyond....

The newspapers have been filled lately with astronomy stories. Gamma ray bursters, planetary fragments, black holes, comets.... almost anything you could imagine. And more is on the way -- the American Astronomical Society annual meeting is going on this week, and is guaranteed to spur still more coverage. We'll talk about the latest findings in astronomy, what's going on at the meeting, and what it all means.


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Guests:
Bruce Margon
Professor of Astronomy
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington

Robert Kirshner
Professor of Astronomy
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Jane Luu
Assistant Professor of Astronomy
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts


Books/Articles Discussed:

"A new dynamical class of object in the outer Solar System." by J Luu, B G Marsden, D Jewitt, C A Trujillo, C W Hergenrother, J Chen & W B Offutt. Nature, June 5, 1997.

Related links:


Planetoids:
The Harvard-Smithsonian Minor Planet Center
http://sao-www.harvard.edu/cfa/ps/mpc.html
Other minor planet info:
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/faculty/jewitt/kb.html

Black Holes:
http://physics7.berkeley.edu/BHfaq.html

Gamma Ray Bursts:
http://lheawww.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/gamcosray/legr/tgrs/tgrs_home.html
http://osse-www.nrl.navy.mil/blast.htm

A Huge List of Astronomy Sites:
http://www.w3.org/pub/DataSources/bySubject/astro/astro.html




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