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• Dance of the Planets

  During the last part of May, three planets will be dancing around each other low in the west after sunset. Venus, Jupiter and Mercury will give a vivid illustration of the origin of the word “planet”, which means “wanderer”. If you ever wanted a demonstration of how planets move against the background stars, this is [...]
• ROAD TRIP!!

  Mark Your calendar for May 4th, 2013. All NEKAAL members are invited to meet at the parking lot at 10th & Gage (west of Walgreen’s). We will carpool/caravan north to Holton and then west a few miles to Banner Creek Reservoir. The Banner Creek Science Center is located on the west side of the park. [...]
• KU SEDS visits Farpoint

  Dr. Twarog from Kansas University brought out a group of SEDS members. They stayed til 3:00 AM after arriving the about 9:00 PM the night before (2nd of February). SEDS stands for Students for the Exploration and Development of Space. - Gary
• Another Apollo (this time a PHA) found at Sandlot Observatory

  I swept up 2013 AS27 while performing NEOCP follow-up. The object I was looking up was listed as UABF97F on the NEOCP. Off the NE side of the images was a fast moving 18th magnitude unknown. I immediately turned in the object as lb4020 (my temporarily assigned designation) to the MPC. Within minutes it was [...]

• Dates for our 2012 meetings have been posted.
• A members websites section was added in External Links.
• Archives of our newsletter have been put online.

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