[Chaos-l] Fwd: Special Lecture

[Jayme Hanzak]

Hello everyone, 



We have a special invite from RAC. It sounds very interesting and worth considering. I hope some of us can make it. 

Jayme Hanzak 
CHAOS President 

CHAOS 
P.O. Box 842 
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-0842 
http://www.rtpnet.org/chaos/ 

----- "Ian Hewitt" <hewitti at bellsouth.net> wrote: 
| 
|   Hello Jayme, 
| 
|    I wanted to invite you and your membership to special lecture on Friday, October 9th at 7:30 PM.  RAC will be sponsoring 
| the Rene Ward Memorial Lecture in the WRAL auditorium at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences.  Our presentation will be: 
| 
|     The Discovery of Pluto: Accident or Prediction? 
     Henry Norris Russell and the Early Controversy 
| 
|      "Henry Norris Russell's defense of the discovery of Pluto as the result of a prediction reveals much about 
|        astronomical practices in the early 20th century" 
| 
| It will be given by: 
| 
|    Dr. David H DeVorkin 
|    Senior Curator, Astronomy and the Space Sciences 
|    Division of Space History 
|    National Air and Space Museum 
|    Smithsonian Institution 
| 
| He key research interest is in the history of astronomy in the 20th century and he has published multiple works.  He is considered 
| the preeminent biographer on Henry Norris Russell. 
| 
| Please RSVP to rsvp at raleighastro.org 
| 
| Thank You and I hope to see you all there. -Ian 
| 
| --   Ian Hewitt, KJ4IOZ Co-Chair, Raleigh Astronomy Club c/o 9650 Strickland Road, Suite 103/PMB209 Raleigh, NC 27615 USA (919) 637-2736
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