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email: Jan.18.
Jan.18. Chris
O'Kane
launches monthly discussion meetings on the search for life
on Mars. Dave
Allen
sponsors special Mars issue of Spacereport, with our
first-ever colour cover. Feb.14. Space
Policy editor Frances Brown at Airdrie. Mar.14. Dr.
Colin McInnes, Glasgow University, 'The International Space
Station', Airdrie. Mar.19. Star
party and Comet Hale-Bopp watch at Drumpellier
Country Park Visitor Centre;
Airdrie
Public Observatory
open to the public on clear nights, Mar.17-21,
26-27. Mar.21. Andrew
Lound, Planetary Society UK Organiser, 'Exploration of the
Solar System', Airdrie. May 30. Dr.
Bonnie Steves, Caledonian University, 'Celestial Mechanics',
at Airdrie; followed by Duncan
Lunan lecture
at Caledonian University, Oct.16. June. Special
Waverider
issue of Asgard with colour illustrations sponsored by
Dave
Allen;
contributors Duncan
Lunan,
Dr.
Jim Randolph,
Prof.
Terence Nonweiler,
Gordon
Ross, C.W.
Kasmann. Incorporated by Nick Portwin into the ASTRA
Website. June 13. Dr.
Allan Chapman, University of Oxford, 'James Nasmyth',
Airdrie. June 15.
'Heresies in Archaeoastronomy - 2' conference, moved from
Ramshorn Theatre to GCVS; speakers including
Matt
Ewart, Tony
Crerar, John
Braithwaite,
Duncan
Lunan,
Chris
O'Kane. June 21. AGM,
GCVS. Iain
Girdwood
stands down from Council. June 23, 24,
26. NASA conducts first three radio-controlled
Waverider
powered free-flights using the LO-FLYTE vehicle. Aug.
Duncan
Lunan stands
down as ASTRA President, becoming Treasurer in place of
Roddy
Chisholm;
Andy
Nimmo stands
down as Secretary, replaced by Dave
Allen. At the
end of August Duncan
Lunan stands
down as Assistant Curator of Airdrie
Public Observatory,
replaced by Danny
Kane. Sept.21. North
Lanarkshire Council 'Doors Open Day' including
Airdrie
Public Observatory;
repeated Oct.4. Text agreed for colour leaflet promoting the
Observatory. Sept.26. First
of extended series of slide talks by Duncan
Lunan,
Airdrie, with new integration of ASTRA's slides and my
own. Oct.3. Death
of George
Hay, Honorary
Member. Gerry
Carter, host
of London branch meetings in the mid-79's, died in the same
week. Dec.12.
Anniversary Dinner, Airdrie Arts Centre 1998
1996
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