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< http://andrewcarnegie2.tripod.com/transit ><br><br>--- On <b>Sat, 7/30/11, dfischer@ASTRO.UNI-BONN.DE <i><dfischer@ASTRO.UNI-BONN.DE></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: dfischer@ASTRO.UNI-BONN.DE <dfischer@ASTRO.UNI-BONN.DE><br>Subject: Solar system features named for dead *amateur* astronomers<br>To: HASTRO-L@listserv.wvu.edu<br>Date: Saturday, July 30, 2011, 11:13 AM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Probably one of the greatest honors to be bestowed on a deceased scientist<br>is having a feature on a solid solar system body named after him or her.<br>One such feature will be much in the news (hopefully) in 2012 and beyond:<br>the large Mars crater Gale which was chosen as the target for the Mars<br>Science Laboratory rover 'Curiosity' last week. The Gale it is named for<br>was an Australian *amateur* astronomer, as we learn in the MNRAS
obituary<br><a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1946MNRAS.106Q..29" target="_blank">http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1946MNRAS.106Q..29</a>. as well as in the<br>biographical entry<br><a href="http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/gale-walter-frederick-6269" target="_blank">http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/gale-walter-frederick-6269</a> - an avid<br>observer and discoverer, well known in his time, but no professional<br>scientist. Which makes me wonder: How many other amateur astronomers<br>(let's say of the 20th century when that term was established) have 'made<br>it' onto a solar system body?<br><br>Dan<br><br>P.S.: More biographical info on Gale than the two sources I quote (where<br>every Google link chain seems to end up eventually) would be welcome<br></div></blockquote></td></tr></table>