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From: clyde@reed.UUCP
Newsgroups: sci.astro,sci.misc
Subject: Re: Quasar question
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Date: Sat, 28-Mar-87 14:33:58 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 28 14:33:58 1987
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Keywords: When were they "discovered?"
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Summary: Quasars are not pulsars.


>Joscelyn (Bell) spotted the first quasar when doing postgrad work at
>Cambridge, England. It must have been 1965. 

No she did not.  She discovered the first pulsar at about that time
and place.

Incidently, she hasn't held a steady job since.  She's only just now
entered into a tenure track position that has promising stability.
The job market seems to be rough for an astronomer.  Maybe I'm a fool
for wanting to be one so badly.


-- 
"For Easter Day is Christmas time,		Clyde Bryja
 And far away is near,				
 And two and two is more than four,		tektronix!reed!clyde
 And over there is here."