Asteroid (28538) Ruisong

Rui Song (b. 1995) was awarded second place in the 2011 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for her plant sciences project. She attends the Walter Murray Collegiate Institute, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Orbit type: Main Belt

Reference: MPC 81070

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Asteroid (28210) Howardfeng

Howard Feng (b. 1995) was awarded second place in the 2011 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his cellular and molecular biology project. He attends the Bayview Secondary School, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada.

Orbit type: Main Belt

Reference: MPC 81064

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LPA Special Issue

Inside This Issue:

  • President’s Message
  • Prologue
  • The Eye and Visual System: A Brief Introduction
  • Scotobiology
  • Light and Dark and Human Health
  • Lighting in the Roadway Environment: Aims, Advances, and Alternatives
  • LEDs in Outdoor Lighting
  • International Dark-sky Efforts
  • Mont-Mégantic First International Dark-Sky Reserve: Achievements And Challenges
  • Dark-Sky Parks
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JRASC 2012 December

Inside this issue:

  • Size of the Black-Drop Effect
  • The Grand Schism in Canadian Astronomy III
  • Half-Century of Astronomy Outreach
  • So Long, Neil Armstrong
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Pocket Sky Atlas Challenges for October

Sky and Telescope's "Pocket Sky Atlas" is a wonderful resource for all amateur astronomers. These challenges are designed for spicing up your observing.

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Pocket Sky Atlas Challenges for December

Sky and Telescope's "Pocket Sky Atlas" is a wonderful resource for all amateur astronomers. These challenges are designed for spicing up your observing.


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Pocket Sky Atlas Challenges for November

Sky and Telescope's "Pocket Sky Atlas" is a wonderful resource for all amateur astronomers. These challenges are designed for spicing up your observing.

 

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Asteroid (7754) Gopalan

Gopalan Srinivasan (b. 1964) is a professor in the department of geology at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on understanding the formation and evolution of the solar system through chemical and isotopic studies of meteorites.

 
Orbit type: Main Belt Asteroid 
 
Reference: MPC 57422
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Asteroid (129101) Geoffcollyer

Canadian computer scientist Geoff Collyer (b. 1958) is co-author of C News and designer of the NOV database used by USENET newsreaders. While at Bell Laboratories, he contributed to the Plan 9 operating system. Geo® is a noted Plan 9 and UNIX enthusiast.

Reference: MPC 57426

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Asteroid (117329) Spencer

Henry Spencer (b. 1955) is a Canadian computer scientist and small-satellite engineer. He has been a pioneer of open-source software, including C News and the "regex" pattern-matching library. He is also the keeper of the oldest surviving Usenet archives and the software architect for the MOST astronomy satellite.

Reference: MPC 57425

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