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Subject: Re: Quasar question
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Date: Fri, 27-Mar-87 04:50:18 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 27 04:50:18 1987
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Joscelyn (Bell) spotted the first quasar when doing postgrad work at
Cambridge, England. It must have been 1965. 

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