Comets and Communication: Amateur-Professional Tension in Australian Astronomy
Abstract
Australasian amateur astronomers, Grigg and Ross, discovered four different comets between 1902 and 1907. Controversy surrounding these discoveries led to a deterioration in relations between Australia's leading amateur astronomers and Baracchi at Melbourne Observatory, and to the eventual transfer of the `Australian Central Bureau' to Sydney Observatory.
- Publication:
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
- Pub Date:
- August 1999
- DOI:
- 10.1071/AS99212
- Bibcode:
- 1999PASA...16..212O
- Keywords:
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- COMETS;
- HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY;
- comets;
- history of astronomy