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Comets and Communication: Amateur–Professional Tension in Australian Astronomy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2013

Wayne Orchiston
Wayne Orchiston*
Affiliation:
Carter Observatory (The National Observatory of New Zealand), PO Box 2909, Wellington, New Zealand; Wayne.Orchiston@vuw.ac.nz
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Abstract

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Australasian amateur astronomers, Grigg and Ross, discovered four different comets between 1902 and 1907. Controversy surrounding these discoveries led to a deterioration in relations between Australia's leading amateur astronomers and Baracchi at Melbourne Observatory, and to the eventual transfer of the ‘Australian Central Bureau’ to Sydney Observatory.

Keywords

cometshistory of astronomy
Type
Research Article
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , 1999 , pp. 212 - 221
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1999

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