Annual Report 2023

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JRASC 2024 June

Inside this issue:

  • Venus as seen by the Mayas
  • The Noctilucent Cloud Observing Program of Michael Noble
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Asteroid (209206) Richardhenry

Richard Conn Henry (b. 1940) is an American Academy Professor at the Johns Hopkins University specializing in far ultra-violet observations. He directs NASA's Maryland Space Grant Consortium and is a former Deputy Director of NASA's Astrophysics Division. He works with the New Horizons Science Team to use the spacecraft for astrophysical investigations.
B.Sc. University College, University of Toronto and RASC Gold Medal 1961
University of Toronto M.Sc. Thesis 'Spectrophotometry of globular clusters' 1962, Ph.D. Princeton 1967

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(209883) Jasonhofgartner

Jason D. Hofgartner (b. 1988) is a Canadian planetary scientist. He served as a science team graduate student researcher on NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.

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Sinkwich-IWLOP

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Hamilton-IWLOP

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JRASC 2024 April

Inside this issue:

  • Cosmological Redshift without Expanding Space
  • SN 2023ixf in the Galaxy Messier 101
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JRASC February 2024

Inside this issue:

  • Charles Smallwood, Amateur Astronomer (Part 2)
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Asteroid (10109) Sidhu

Jaskarn Singh “Sid” Sidhu (1938-2025) joined the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Victoria Centre, in 1985, and has been a mentor for new members. He coordinated the loan of Centre-owned telescopes and the club's schools program. Sid was awarded the RASC President's Award in 2010 for his leadership during the International Year of Astronomy.

Reference: WGSBN Bulletin, Volume 2, Number 2, page 6

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asteroid (12249) Hannorein

Hanno Rein (b. 1983) is a German dynamicist and associate professor at the University of Toronto. He develops numerical methods for integrating the motions of gravitationally interacting systems, both within our Solar System and beyond. Rein created the widely used REBOUND N-body package and the iOS outreach app Exoplanet and Mega Constellations, an orbit simulator for satellites. His home page is here.

Type: Main-Belt

Reference: WGSBN Bulletin, Volume 3, Number 3, Page 10

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