We are pleased to announce a talk by famed comet hunter and author David Levy at the October meeting of the Huachuca Astronomy Club. Our October meeting will be held in the Cochise College library (Library Commons) on the Sierra Vista Campus on Friday, October 30, 2015 at 7PM. The meeting is FREE and open to the public.
Dr. David Levy is the discoverer (or co-discoverer) of 22 comets and 53 asteroids and is the author of 34 books. He was catapulted to international fame with the discovery of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 (D/1993 F2), the comet that broke apart and collided with Jupiter in July 1994, providing the first direct observation of an extraterrestrial collision of Solar System objects. Among his many books are The Quest for Comets, a biography of Pluto-discoverer Clyde Tombaugh in 2006, and his tribute to Gene Shoemaker in Shoemaker by Levy. He has provided periodic articles for Sky and Telescope magazine as well as Parade Magazine, Sky News and, Astronomy Magazine. The asteroid 3673 Levy was named in his honor. David was awarded the C.A. Chant Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada in 1980 and was recipient of the 1990 G. Bruce Blair Medal. In 1993 he won the Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. In 2007, Levy received the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory’s Edgar Wilson Award for the discovery of comets
David’s talk is entitled Sixty years of observing: The observing records go public.
We will treat David and Wendee to dinner at Outback at 5PM before the meeting. Members that would like to join us for dinner should RSVP to Ted Forte by email: