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Terry Moseley Asteroid Event

A former resident of Armagh, Mr Terry Moseley, who for many years has played a leading role in the Irish Astronomical Association (IAA), was honoured by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) by having a minor planet named after him. The asteroid, the first to be discovered by David Asher, of the Armagh Observatory, was found at Siding Spring Observatory, Australia, on Boxing Day 1994, and the official announcement of the honour was made on 21 September 2002 in Minor Planet Circular No. 46683 issued by the IAU's Minor Planet Center, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. A reception to mark the event was held at the Armagh Observatory on 15 January 2003. More than 40 members of the IAA and local astronomy clubs from all corners of Ireland, as well as professional astronomers, attended the function to celebrate the naming of the minor planet. More details of the event are provided at star.arm.ac.uk/press/TerryMoseley-Asteroid.html. The formal citation reads as follows:

(16693)Moseley = 1994YC2 Discovered 1994 Dec. 26 by D.J. Asher at Siding Spring. Terence J.C.A. Moseley (b. 1946), editor of Stardust, 1992 Aidan P. Fitzgerald Medallist and founding member of the Irish Federation of Astronomical Societies, was the first amateur to use the recently restored six-foot Birr telescope in September 2001. The name was suggested by J.C. McConnell.

Figure 11: The Science in the Gravity Bar Event, one of the evening sessions at the National Astronomy Meeting, Dublin. Image courtesy of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.