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KeplerBrief description
This Group will celebrate the 400th anniversary of Kepler's Astronomia Nova, the cornerstone of modern astronomy, in the year of the launch of NASA's Kepler mission to seek Earth-sized extrasolar planets.
Task group
- Terence Mahoney (
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- Alan Chapman
- David Koch (
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- Thomas Posch (
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- Tapio Markkanen (
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- Stanislaw Bajtlik (
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- Rick Fienberg (
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- Steve Pompea (
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- Beatriz García (
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- Berthold Geck (
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Aim
Raise Kepler's public profile through in-reach (telling astronomers about Kepler), education, outreach.
Means
Conferences, public talks, exhibitions, articles, books, radio
Resources - • Bibliography, museums, monuments, TV documentaries, letters, literature & arts
- • Organize Special Session on Kepler at IAU GA 2009 (Rio de Janeiro)
- • Investigate possibility of getting Kepler's correspondence published in English(at an affordable price)
- • Investigate commemorate stamps/coins
- • Promote Kepler as Astronomy Ambassador
- • IAU GA 2009 SPS
- • Title: 'Marking the 400th Anniversary of Kepler's "Astronomia Nova"'
- • Letter of Intent now listed on IAU website
- • Formal proposal being prepared to deliver by December 2007
- • Planned launch of NASA's Kepler Mission in Feb. 2009
- • Czech Republic: International symposium in Prague
- • Poland: International symposium in Zagan
- • Austria: Exhibitions and other activities in Linz, Vienna and Graz
- • Germany: Weil der Stadt has plans and has contacts the Kepler TG
Downloads  Kepler: His Life and Work
A Resource Guide to Materials in English for Beginners
by Andrew Fraknoi (Foothill College & ASP)
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