You Couldn't Make It Up

You Couldn't Make It Up

By Mexborough & Swinton Astronomical Society

Some strange real tales from the the history of Astronomy

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Mexborough Church Hall

58A Church Street Mexborough S64 0ER United Kingdom

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  • 2 hours 30 minutes
  • In person

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Science & Tech • Science


"You Couldn't Make It Up!" - a collection of bizarre stories from the history of astronomy, including;"The Planet That Wasn't""The Heavens and Mrs. Hodges""Ungentlemanly Conduct" - the two English "gentlemen" who behaved like anything butand of course, "The Unluckiest Astronomer Who Ever Lived".

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Our Speaker : Neil Haggarth, graduated from the University of Leeds, England, in 1983, with an honours degree in Physics with Astrophysics. A software engineer by profession,
he has a lifelong interest in astronomy and spaceflight. B in 1961, just a few months after Yuri Gagarin’s flight, so it’s fair to say that he “grew up with the Space Age”, in the exciting times of the early Space Race and the Apollo programme. The resultant fascination with spaceflight has never left him.
He's been an amateur astronomer since as early an age as he can remember and a member of Cleveland and Darlington Astronomical Society since 1981. He is very proud to be a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, having been elected to that honour in 1993.

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This meeting is Live in the Church Hall and can be accessed via Zoom here: https://shorturl.at/zWfn8

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Mexborough & Swinton Astronomical Society

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