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Mercury Magazine

Contents and Select Excerpts
Vol. 34 No. 2
March/April 2005

Mercury is a bi-monthly membership magazine. Find out how you can join the ASP today!

Page	Article
12	PARI: Where Science Excites the Imagination, John Avant Located in the wooded seclusion of western North Carolina, the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute is a marvelous research and teaching facility.
19	Cooking Up Heavy Elements in the Cosmos, Ignacio Birriel and Jennifer Birriel The questions of how and where elements heavier than iron are formed are important and bear directly on our own existence.
26	Learning to Own the Sky, Jeff Lockwood, Katy Garmany, and Travis Rector For seven years a program in Arizona has permitted teachers to conduct astronomical research and to involve their students in real scientific discovery.
33	VOLVELLES! Early Paper Astronomical Computers , Nick Kanas Long before our age of sky-simulation software and desktop planetaria, observers of the heavens used analog computers made of paper.
	Departments
4	Editorial, James C. White II Setting the Stage
5	Armchair Astrophysics, Christopher Wanjek Losing and Finding Half the Matter in the Universe
6	Planetary Perspectives, Daniel D. Durda Space Art Below Sea Level
7	Echoes of the Past, Katherine Bracher 100 Years Ago: The Mount Wilson Solar Observatory
8	Astronomer's Notebook, Jennifer Birriel At the Heart of the Milky Way
9	Societal Impact , Kristin Nelson Bay Area Project ASTRO
10	Annals of Astronomy, Clifford J. Cunningham Astronomical Predictions
11	Education Matters, Andrew Fraknoi Cosmos in the Classroom 2004
40	Works of Note
41	Sky Events, Richard Talcott March Sky Map \| April Sky Map \| May Sky Map
44	Society Scope
47	Last Word, Katy Garmany The Next Stage

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