Steve Brightman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Those of you that went to LOG22 may be interested in the following news: Begin forwarded message: > YERKES ON THE BLOCK > > Yerkes Observatory may soon have a new owner. The University of Chicago > has considered selling the observatory's telescopes, buildings, and > about > 80 acres of lakefront property in southeastern Wisconsin "for decades," > says director Kyle M. Cudworth, the only astronomer still working full > time at the former research powerhouse. Now a sale seems imminent, and > it > remains unclear what the future holds for the observatory's century-old > refractor (the world's largest), its Romanesque main building, and its > two > dozen employees. > > Cudworth first learned in July that the university had received -- and > was > close to accepting -- an unsolicited offer for Yerkes from a developer > hoping to build houses on the observatory's landscaped grounds.... > >> http://SkyandTelescope.com/news/article_1408_1.asp > > Steve Steve, I was at LOG 22 and toured the observatory's layout and grounds. Very sad to hear we can fund wars but not science. Robert Grener ' 87 turbo Esprit Yahoo! Groups Links --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lotus-cars/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
