AAS 203rd Meeting, January 2004
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Session 1 HAD I: Transit of Venus
Division Special Session, Sunday, January 4, 2004,
2:00-5:00pm, Courtland
- 1.01 Chasing Venus: Putting the Transits of Venus on Exhibition
- R.S. Brashear (Smithsonian Inst.)
- 1.02 Jeremiah Horrocks, The New Astronomy, And The Transit Of Venus
- W. Applebaum (Illinois Institute of Technology)
- 1.03 The American Transit of Venus Expeditions of 1874 and 1882
- S. J. Dick (NASA)
- 1.04 Explanation of the Black-Drop Effect at Transits of Mercury and the Forthcoming Transit of Venus
- J. M. Pasachoff (Williams College--Hopkins Obs.), G. Schneider (Steward Obs., U. Az.), L. Golub (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
- 1.05 David Peck Todd and the transit of 1882: A lover�s triangle forms while an astronomer triangulates the distance to the Sun
- W. P. Sheehan (Independent Scholar)
- 1.06 E. E. Barnard and the New Star in the Andromeda Nebula
- J. Bryan (McDonald Observatory)
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