(meteorobs) Fwd: SOHO Comet contest

[Lew Gramer]

Only very tangentially meteor-related, but it's February. :)

Clear skies,
Lew


--- Cathy Clemens <cclemens at head.cfa.harvard.edu> wrote:
> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 10:48:41 -0500
> From: Cathy Clemens
> To: Project ASTRO Boston
> Subject: comet contest
> 
> Hi all, - another contest - entries due in May:
> 
> The most prolific comet-hunter in history recently made its 
> 900th discovery of a frozen visitor to the inner solar 
> system, a chunk of ice and rock hurtling precariously close 
> to the Sun.
> 
> To celebrate this achievement of the SOHO spacecraft, its 
> operators have begun a contest for the public to pick the 
> timing of the discovery of No. 1,000, officials told/ 
> SPACE.com/.
> 
> The winner will receive a SolarMax DVD, a SOHO T-shirt, 
> solar viewing glasses, and more. Prizes will be awarded for 
> second and third place, too. SOHO is a joint project of NASA 
> and the European Space Agency.
> 
>
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> 
> For the rest of the story or more information please go to:
> 
> http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/soho_contest_050125.html
> 
> Cheeers,
> Cathy
> 
> Cathleen Clemens
> Project ASTRO Coordinator

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Lew Gramer <dedalus at alum.mit.edu>


		
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