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Mercury Magazine

Contents and Select Excerpts
Vol. 34 No. 3
May/June 2005

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

Page	Article
12	Rings of Creation, Richard H. Durisen Even though the notion of protoplanetary disks is not new, increasingly sophisticated models of planet formation are now showing us how planets may really come to be.
20	Building Bridges to Diversity in Physics and Astronomy, Keivan G. Stassun Increasing the number of minority astronomers would be easy if only it didn’t seem so hard.
26	Nature’s Hurricane Recipe, James C. White II Mighty swirling buckets of Earth’s atmosphere start appearing when ocean waters warm.
34	Phase Transitions and Exotic Relics, Zachariah Cano The Universe had an energetic beginning, and we must work with the remains of that fiery first day and some heady physics to understand better how everything came to be.
	Departments
4	Editorial, James C. White II Voices on the Aether
5	Armchair Astrophysics, Christopher Wanjek The Rise and Fall of the Working Class Black Hole
6	Planetary Perspectives, Daniel D. Durda Small Craters on Mars: Primarily Secondary?
7	Echoes of the Past, Katherine Bracher 75 Years Ago: A Solar Eclipse for California
8	Astronomer's Notebook, Jennifer Birriel Watching Polaris
9	Societal Impact , Peter Michaud Gemini Observatory and Family (’Ohana) ASTRO
10	Annals of Astronomy, Clifford J. Cunningham The First Dateline
11	Education Matters, Dennis Schatz Monday Night Science
40	Works of Note
41	Sky Events, Richard Talcott May Sky Map \| June Sky Map \| July Sky Map
44	Society Scope
47	Last Word, Michael Bennett Doing What the ASP Does Best

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