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Alice's astronomical ancestry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2007

Philip Edwards
Philip Edwards*
Affiliation:
CSIRO ATNF, Paul Wild Observatory, Narrabri NSW 2390, Australia email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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IAU242 was held in Alice Springs, a town of 28,000 in central Australia. In this paper the Alice after whom the town is named is identified, and her astronomical connections described.

Keywords

history and philosophy of astronomytime
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 3 , Symposium S242: Astrophysical Masers and their Environments , March 2007 , pp. 1 - 6
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2008

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