Hi Brend,
Leslie Peltier was, in a small way, responsible for getting me
interested in astronomy & meteorites. My mother grew up down the road from
him in Delphos, Ohio. He would show the local kids his new discoveries, my
mother was one of the kids. Her interest in the heavens was passed down to
me. It was not until later that I discovered that "the guy down the road"
was Leslie Peltier. On day I was reading Starlight Nights and my mother saw
the author's name. After that I was very jealous of the views she had thru
his telescope.
Thanks,
Peter
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Subject: [meteorite-list] Burnham's Celestial Handbook
Hello List,
Burnham's Celestial Handbook trilogy has always been as essential to me as
O.R. Norton's RFS (I,II) and his Cambridge Encyclopedia of Meteorites.
Another very inspirational and motivating booklet that I can highly
recommend is "Starlight Nights, The Adventures of a Star-Gazer" by Leslie C.
Peltier* (1965).
* see also: Leslie Peltier remembered, S&T, 1980, Aug, pp. 104-105.
Cheers,
Bernd
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