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  • Young Astronomers Newsletter September 2016

    The Young Astronomers Newsletter The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 24 Number 9 September 2016 By Bob Patsiga     In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses: Updates on the Jupiter Juno mission Issues with the Kepler Space Telescope leads to a reassignment of study targets Discrepancies within the Hubble constant used to calculate…

  • Young Astronomers Newsletter August 2016

    The Young Astronomers Newsletter The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 24 Number 8 August 2016 By Bob Patsiga     In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses: Update on New Horizons and JUNO missions.  New Horizons is now well beyond Pluto and NASA has already identified its next Kuiper Belt object for exploration. JUNO…

  • Young Astronomers Newsletter July 2016

    The Young Astronomers Newsletter The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 24 Number 7 July 2016 By Bob Patsiga     In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses: Description of NASA’s JUNO mission to Jupiter, which reaches its destination on July 1. Article describes JUNO’s objectives and its timetable of study of the gas giant.…

  • Young Astronomers Newsletter June 2016

    The Young Astronomers Newsletter The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 24 Number 6 June 2016 By Bob Patsiga     In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses: Summary of what we know about Planet Nine.  Article by Michael Brown of Caltech in Astronomy magazine. New concept about the location of the Milky Way in…

  • Young Astronomers Newsletter May 2016

    The Young Astronomers Newsletter The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 24 Number 5 May 2016 By Bob Patsiga     In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses: * The last four of the heavy elements in the seventh row of the periodic table have been created/discovered. Now it is time to give them names. Possibilities have…

  • Young Astronomers Newsletter April 2016

    The Young Astronomers Newsletter The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 24 Number 4 April 2016 By Bob Patsiga

  • Young Astronomers Newsletter March 2016

    The Young Astronomers Newsletter The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 24 Number 3 March 2016 By Bob Patsiga

  • Young Astronomers Newsletter February 2016

    The Young Astronomers Newsletter The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 24 Number 2 February 2016 By Bob Patsiga     With great loss we have to announce the Forsyth Astronomical Society is diminished with the passing one of it’s brightest stars. Young Astronomers Newsletter founder Art Gormly passed away on January 7th. This edition includes an…

  • Young Astronomers Newsletter January 2016

    The Young Astronomers Newsletter The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 24 Number 1 January 2016 By Bob Patsiga