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May/June 2002Mercury Magazine Contents
Vol. 31 No. 3
May/June 2002

 

Mercury Sky Maps now online!

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16 The Ultimate Telescope, Govert Schilling
Italian astronomer Roberto Gilmozzi envisions a 100-meter telescope – an instrument that would make current telescopes seem like opera glasses.
23 Flying Telescopes, Sally Stephens
Following nearly four decades of bigger and better airborne observatories, NASA’s SOFIA mission will carry infrared astronomy to new heights.
32 Special sidebar: SIRTF: NASA’s Next Great Observatory, Michelle Thaller
34 Jupiter’s Moons and the Longitude Problem, Robert Mentzer
For a period lasting over a century, the most effective way to determine longitude was to observe the Galilean moons of Jupiter.
Departments
4 Editorial, Robert Naeye
I’ll Never See Pluto
5

Society Scope
News and information for Society members

8 Astronomy Newsflash, Alan P. Boss
They Might Be Giants
9 Research Notebook, Christopher Conselice
Astrobiology: The New Astronomy
10 Armchair Astrophysics, Christopher Wanjek
From Neutron Stars to Quark Stars
11 Annals of Astronomy, Clifford J. Cunningham
Exotic Stars
12 Echoes of the Past, Katherine Bracher
Dark Cosmic Clouds
13 Focus on Education, Jodi Asbell-Clarke
Striking Kuiper Belt Gold
14 Astronomer’s Scrapbook, William Sheehan
Religion and the Stars
15 Observer’s Page, John Shibley
Globular Galore
C1 Sky Map and Sky Talk, Richard Talcott
May Sky Map | June Sky Map | July Sky Map
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Book Review, Andrew Fraknoi
Higher than Everest: An Adventurer’s Guide to the Solar System (by Paul Hodge)

 
 
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