Session 40. HAD III: Some Controversies in the History of Astronomy

Special Session Oral, Monday, January 7, 2002, 2:00-3:30pm, State

40.01 Solar Orientation of Irish Early Christian Oratories

V.R. Tiede (Yale University)

40.02 Should Astronomy Abolish Magnitudes?

K. Brecher (Boston U.)

40.03 History and Myth: Trans-Neptunian Objects and Their Terminology

D. W. E. Green (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

40.04 Sixteenth Century Astronomical Telescopy

P.D. Usher (Penn State)

40.05 Flamsteed's Supernova of 1680

R. A. Fesen (Dartmouth College)

40.06 What a Difference a Day Makes: A History of the Date Line

I. R. Bartky (Bethesda, MD)