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	Astronomer Summary
		Astronomers did not emerge as true scientists until the Renaissance, when new observations and theories by astronomers such as Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543) of Poland and Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) of Italy challenged the beliefs of the church.
		In many respects observational astronomers are closer to the classical image of an astronomer, whereas theoretical astronomers are more strongly rooted in the worlds of physics and mathematics.
		Astrology is opposed by nearly all astronomers, who not only reject the notion that the positions of celestial objects govern the future but also note that many of the data and definitions used by astrologers are inaccurate.
	www.bookrags.com /Astronomer (1972 words)

	Astronomers...SciPeeps.com
		An astronomer or astrophysicist is a scientist whose area of research is astronomy or astrophysics.
		Hipparchus - Hipparchus (circa 190 BC — circa 120 BC) was a Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician.
		Aristarchus - Aristarchus (310 BC - circa 230 BC) was a Greek astronomer and mathematician, born in Samos, Greece.
	www.scipeeps.com /astronomers.html (669 words)

	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		An astronomer or astrophysicist is a person whose area of interest is astronomy or astrophysics.
		Yet another type of Astronomer can be identified; the website builder and promoter, sharing science and sky images as part of the growth in networking astronomy, in-turn, encouraging the growth by disseminating both result and technique.
		Astronomers are often mathematicians, but more than likely looking through a telescope or camera and recording the image.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Astronomers (371 words)

	Learn more about List of people by occupation in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		List of people by occupation: There are a variety of articles on wikipedia that list people of a particular occupation.
		People on these lists should ideally have wikipedia articles of their own, and be in some way noteworthy for their occupation.
		List of musicians by genre (with more lists)
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/li/list_of_people_by_occupation.html (163 words)

	Al Jazeera English - Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		US astronomers have come up with a shortlist of five stars in the Milky Way galaxy that are most likely to support extraterrestrial life.
		Turnbull said the list was merely a starting point and it remained difficult to rank stars as more or less likely to shelter life.
		The list will provide potential targets for the Terrestrial Planet Finder, which was originally set to be launched in 2016 but has been postponed because of federal budget constraints.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/66DE5C0E-341A-4AB7-AB6C-2FBF92D33464.htm (494 words)

	Famous Astronomers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Many of the astronomers on this page were also physicists, mathematicians, and philosophers, but their contributions listed here are limited to those specific to astronomy and astrophysics.
		He compiled many astronomical tables and performed a reformation of the calendar which was more accurate than the Julian and came close to the Gregorian.
		The third law was a masterpiece of simplicity: the square of the number of years of a planet's orbital period is equal to the cube of that planet's average distance from the Sun.
	physics.unr.edu /grad/welser/astro/astronomers.html (2599 words)

	Pluto Stricken From List of Planets: Astronomers Reverse Course on Sphere's Status - Space - RedOrbit
		PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Pluto, beloved by some as a cosmic underdog but scorned by astronomers who considered it too dinky and distant, was unceremoniously stripped of its status as a planet Thursday.
		The International Astronomical Union, dramatically reversing course just a week after floating the idea of reaffirming Pluto's planethood and adding three new planets to Earth's neighborhood, downgraded the ninth rock from the sun in historic new galactic guidelines.
		Astronomers have labored without a universal definition of a planet since well before the time of Copernicus, who proved that the Earth revolves around the sun, and the experts gathered in Prague burst into applause when the guidelines were passed.
	www.redorbit.com /news/space/632616/pluto_stricken_from_list_of_planets__astronomers_reverse_course/index.html?source=r_space (453 words)

	Astronomers
		This list is not intended to be a complete list of all astronomers.
		Aristarchus is believed to be the first astronomer to state the theory of an heliocentric system long before Nicolas Copernicus.
		As an astronomer, he discovered the oblateness of Mars, the Orion Nebula and Titan, a satellite of Saturn.
	www.onasch.de /astro/astronomers.php?lang=en (1481 words)

	Astronomers make wish list
		Baltimore - Astronomers are meeting this week to put together their wish list for deep-space astronomy projects when the United States resumes exploration of the Moon with a new crew vehicle, the Orion, and new Ares rockets.
		The surface is pockmarked with numerous bowl-shaped craters that can be adapted for use by astronomers who could take advantage of the natural parabolic shape to create large antennas or other receivers, Spudis said.
		Scott Horowitz, a Nasa associate administrator, told the astronomers that the space agency is still early in the design stage but wants significant capability to transport scientific instruments, living quarters and other cargo to the Moon.
	www.news24.com /News24/AnanziArticle/0,,2-13-1443_2037315,00.html (446 words)

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		Astronomer Charles Messier (1730-1817) devoted much of his life searching the heavens for comets.
		As time went on others were added to the list by astronomers.
		Each spring amateur astronomers around the world run a Messier "Marchathon." A visual race through the night sky to get a glimpse of all 109 Messier Objects in a single night, from dusk to dawn.
	www.freelancenews.com /lifestyles/contentview.asp?c=208092&siteID=33 (681 words)

	Astronomers have top star list for extraterrestrial life - Pravda.Ru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Astronomers looking for extraterrestrial life now have a short list of places to point their telescopes.
		But cuts in federal funding mean that private philanthropists who pay for the bulk of their work may find out first when and if extraterrestrial life is discovered, the astronomers told a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
		Margaret Turnbull of the Carnegie Institution of Washington released her "top 10" list of potential stars to the meeting.
	english.pravda.ru /news/science/21-02-2006/76215-astronomers-0 (503 words)

	Astronomers offer list of top candidates for extraterrestrial life - Turkish Daily News Feb 21, 2006
		U.S. astronomers have come up with a short list of five stars in the Milky Way galaxy that are most likely to support extraterrestrial life.
		Turnbull said the list was merely a starting point and it remained difficult to rank stars as more or less likely to shelter life.
		The list will provide potential targets for the Terrestrial Planet Finder, which was originally set to be launched in 2016 but has been postponed due to federal budget constraints.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /article.php?enewsid=36283 (642 words)

	Astronomy Online - Messier Objects
		His chosen specialty was a comet hunter, and the list was designed to serve as a guide to compare know objects to potential comets.
		Messier's goal was not to study these fuzzy objects on Messier's list, but Astronomers today still refer to the Messier Objects as some of the more prominent deep space objects.
		There are 110 of these objects, and they have since been absorbed into a newer catalog - called the New General Catalog (or NGC), however observational purists still refer to the "M" in Messier when viewing these objects through a telescope.
	astronomyonline.org /Astrophotography/Messier_complete.asp (1478 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The first step in generating the list of amateur astronomers was the development of a definition of what is meant by amateur astronomer.
		The Unedited List of Amateur and Professional Astronomers, as it came to be known, has continued to be an interest.
		The list now contains over 1,200 names, and is updated and distributed to historians of astronomy who express an interest and have contributed to the history of amateur contributions to astronomy.
	www.ruf.rice.edu /~trw/history.html (477 words)

	Sci Tech News - from ABC News Online 19/02/2006 Astronomers compile list of possible ET addresses
		Astronomers looking for extraterrestrial (ET) life now have a short list of places to point their telescopes.
		But cuts in federal funding mean that private philanthropists who pay for the bulk of their work may find out first when and if extraterrestrial life is discovered, the astronomers told a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
		She says research and analysis budgets were cut by 15 per cent in the fiscal year 2007 budget proposed this year by US President George W Bush.
	abc.net.au /science/news/scitech/SciTechRepublish_1573296.htm (626 words)

	University Lowbrow Astronomers Book List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Selected articles published in Reflections of the University Lowbrow Astronomers.
		A List of Other Astronomy Clubs in SE Michigan.
		(The University Lowbrow Astronomers are an amateur astronomy club based in Ann Arbor, Michigan).
	www.umich.edu /~lowbrows/biblio (129 words)

	American Scientist Online - In the News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The International Astronomical Union stripped Pluto of its status as a planet, reclassifying it as a "dwarf planet" under historic new guidelines.
		The decision was reached after days of debate among 2,500 astronomers at the union's general assembly—a debate that is not yet over.
		The list of astronomers in disagreement with the assembly's decision includes Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute, who calls the decision "sloppy science," and Harvard professor Owen Gingerich, chair of the definition committee, who implied that the decision was hijacked in a "revolt" by one subgroup.
	www.americanscientist.org /template/AssetDetail/assetid/54098 (731 words)

	ABC News: More Powerful Telescopes on Horizon
		That limitation won’t apply to the telescope that is at the top of the wish list for astronomers in the United States.
		In “Astronomy and Astrophysics in the new Millennium,” a report issued earlier this year by the National Academy of Sciences, astronomers placed a new space telescope at the very top of their list of priorities.
		The astronomers would also like a fleet of four space-borne telescopes that could search for other planets.
	www.abcnews.go.com /Technology/story?id=119887&page=3 (355 words)

	Scientists redefine planets, add three others, brought to you by African News Dimension (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		An international astronomical meeting has proposed a new definition of "planet" to account for massive objects recently discovered in the outer solar system.
		Nearly 2,500 astronomers from 75 countries worked on a universal definition for what qualifies as a planet and whether Pluto should keep its status.
		Astronomers would remain more concerned with the bigger picture, he said, including which of those whizzing cosmic bodies might actually collide with the Earth.
	www.andnetwork.com /index?service=direct/0/Home/recent.fullStory&sp=l49631 (771 words)

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		Eastern time, the object will hurtle harmlessly past at a distance of about 30,000 miles from Earth's center (or 26,000 miles from its surface), he said, based on the most recent observations and computations of the "miss distance." This would be the closest approach by a cosmic object this large in modern history.
		Based on its projected track and its large size, the object has been added to the list of "potentially hazardous objects" that are monitored to determine whether they are destined to come dangerously close to Earth over the next several centuries.
		There are 108 such objects on the list, but astronomers say they have detected only about a tenth of the estimated number of asteroids and comets larger than a kilometer in diameter (0.6 mile) whose orbits could intersect with Earth.
	www.zetatalk.com /theword/tword03n.htm (764 words)

	Finding e-mail addresses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This is a list of hints on how to find the e-mail addresses of astronomers.
		This is the Benn & Martin RGO list of astronomers addresses.
		This is the ESO version of the Benn & Martin RGO list of astronomers addresses.
	www.stecf.org /~ralbrech/email.html (50 words)

	Topic Hotlist
		The students will focusing on the solar system and discovering how the early astronomers came to the conclusions about the solar system compared to what we know today.
		As part of their cumulative grade, the students will choose a planet, small body or constellation and create a timeline of the knowledge of that planet.
		They will also be able to explore the astronomers of the past and present to outline how our knowledge of the solar system has changed.
	people.uwec.edu /BOHMANAC/edmt380/topichotlist.htm (292 words)

	Using the EMAIL search tool (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Starlink EMAIL utility is a simple tool for finding email addresses in the Starlink user lists and the ex-RGO world list of astronomers.
		list and the second is on the ex-RGO world astronomers list.
		The number beside each `hit' on the ex-RGO world list shows which year the entry was last updated.
	star-www.rl.ac.uk /star/dvi/sun182.htx/node9.html (180 words)

	JPL.NASA.GOV: News Releases
		Planets are built over a long period of massive collisions between rocky bodies as big as mountain ranges, astronomers announced today.
		Prior to these new results, astronomers thought planets were formed under less chaotic circumstances.
		Previously, astronomers envisioned this process proceeding smoothly toward a mature planetary system over a few million to a few tens of millions of years.
	www.jpl.nasa.gov /news/news.cfm?release=2004-257 (704 words)

	The Bruce Medalists
		The author is grateful to B.J. Fundaro of Sonoma State University and Paul F. Newman of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for assistance with some of the images on these pages.
		List of medalists: by name or by year.
		Additional photos on the web are also listed on the pages of most medalists.
	www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu /BruceMedalists (330 words)

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		List 1 Astronomers - electronic-mail addresses 1997-Sep-10 This is file ASTROPERSONS.LIS = usernames for approx.
		Prefixed names such as De Sitter or Van Allen are usually listed under De or Van, rather than under Sitter or Allen.
		Inclusion of a user's name in this list does not necessarily imply that he or she regularly reads electronic mail.
	www.arcetri.astro.it /INFO/astropersons (349 words)

	Astronomers & Navigators (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Most seen by astronomers were during observations of Sun or Moon - which is expected, since there's a light, contrasting background to show up any intervening objects.
		The new regime is to suppress - using powers of the State - any such reports from qualified observers (any brave astronomer or navigator speaking up risks losing their livelihood).
		And, more strikingly, the corporate media have, during same period, pursued a campaign of vilification and ridicule of professional sightings - acting hand in hand with governments to completely wipe-out what was, for generations, an accepted and acceptable routine of straight factual reporting of UFOs.
	www.virtuallystrange.net /ufo/updates/2005/oct/m08-011.shtml (274 words)

	The Palomar Globulars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The list of astronomers who first identified the objects as globular clusters includes some famous names, among them Edwin Hubble, Walter Baade, Fritz Zwicky, Halton Arp and George Abell himself.
		Although the objects vary greatly in degree of difficulty--from easy to nearly impossible--observing the whole list is a very challenging observing project for owners of big scopes.
		Pal 5 in Serpens, at mag 11.8 and at a size of 7.4' (the table on Jim's site lists its size as 3.2', and in Megastar as 7.4') is where the challenge began.
	www.angelfire.com /id/jsredshift/palglob.htm (1353 words)

	Messier Objects
		Published in 1781, Charles Messier, the French astronomer, made a list of 103 "fuzzy-looking" objects that might be mistaken for comets.
		(He was a comet hunter!) Later, 7 more objects were added to the list by astronomers because they were described in his personal notations but had never given catalogue numbers.
		These objects are viewed as jewels of the night sky, delightful targets for viewing with binoculars or small telescopes.
	www.unf.edu /~lkmao/astronomy/messier/messiers.html (120 words)

	Astronomers offer list of top candidates for extraterrestrial life
		US astronomers have come up with a short list of five stars in the Milky Way galaxy that are most likely to support extraterrestrial life.
		The list will provide potential targets for the Terrestrial Planet Finder, which was originally set to be launched in 2016 but has been postponed due to federal budget constraints.
		Research for the list was sponsored by NASA and the privately funded Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) organization.
	news.sawf.org /Lifestyle/7948.aspx (1140 words)

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