[FOTZeiss] Fw: For Planet Hunters: Tombaugh's 10 Commandments

[Glenn A. Walsh]

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--- On Wed, 4/6/11, John M. McMahon <mcmahon at LEMOYNE.EDU> wrote:

> From: John M. McMahon <mcmahon at LEMOYNE.EDU>
> Subject: Tombaugh's Ten Commandments
> To: HASTRO-L at listserv.wvu.edu
> Date: Wednesday, April 6, 2011, 6:14 PM

> Just came across this news item.
> Apologies if folks already know of it.
> 
> PhysOrg 4/6/11:
> 
> "Clyde Tombaugh's ten special commandments for planet
> hunters"
> 
> "Back in 1989, amateur astronomer Toney Burkhart found out
> that Clyde
> Tombaugh was going to be giving a talk in San Francisco,
> just a short
> distance from Burkhart’s home. Trouble was, he found out
> only about 10
> minutes before the presentation was going to start, so he
> rushed over
> and arrived just in time to hear Tombaugh’s talk, where
> he told
> amusing stories of how he found Pluto, and what he went
> through with
> night after night in a cold observatory taking photographs
> and
> comparing the glass plates, looking for a planet in the
> outer solar
> system.
> 
> At the end Tombaugh read his version of the Ten
> Commandments, called,
> 'Ten Special Commandments for a Would-Be Planet Hunter.'
> Afterward,
> the posters of the Commandments were being sold as a fund
> raising
> event."
> 
> More:
> 
> http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-04-clyde-tombaugh-ten-special-planet.html
> 
> JMM / LMC
>