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Date: Tue, 28-Jan-86 09:45:14 EST
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> In article <1068@lsuc.UUCP> msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader) writes:
> >Right.  R.S. Richardson is R(obert) S(hirley(!)) Richardson, a professional
> >astronomer.  He's written both nonfiction and sf stories.  And he also uses
> >a pseudonym for his sf, which probably contributed to the confusion.
> >The pseudonym is: Philip Latham.
> 
> For whatever its worth, a quick look into my copy of the American Astronomical
> Society (AAS) membership directory shows no R.S. Richardson (or P. Latham)
> there. I'm not sure about the significance of that.  Essentially all of
> my professional astronomer friends and acquaintances are in the AAS but
> the view here from Princeton and Caltech (where I did my Ph.D) work may not be
> representative of the country as a whole.
> -- 
> Bill Sebok			Princeton University, Astrophysics
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R. S. Richardson probably would not show up in a list of active members,
because he died several years ago.  I met him in New Mexico around 1960,
but didn't know he was also an SF author.  I did know he'd been in
Astounding SF under his own name.  He wrote articles about the "Blue
Clearing" on Mars.  About the same time, I met Dr. J. Allen Hynek, who
talked on balloon astronomy research at Northwestern.  I ddn't know at
that time that he was the USAF's Blue Book researcher, but twenty years
later when I met him again, we did talk UFOs.

That small astronomical society in Las Cruces had some respectable speakers.
I guess when your club advisor is Dr. Clyde Tombaugh, things just happen...

--arlan