Subject: Fwd: Mt. Stromlo Destroyed by Fire

From: Lucy Fortson

Submitted: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 10:26:55 -0600

Message number: 649 (previous: 648, next: 650 up: Index)

Just in case you hadn't heard this horrible news!!!

Our Australian friends are dealing with devastating fires around Canberra,
with enormous loss for the astronomical community.† Thanks to Glen Moore
for forwarding the news. 

†Glen Moore <gkm@uow.edu.au> wrote: 

Historic Mt. Stromlo Observatory has been destroyed by fire!

from a message just received....

"Stromlo Observatory is effectively destroyed. All people are
accounted for which is the most important thing. All of the
residential houses, bar two, are gone, as are the 50", Yale-Columbia,
Oddie, Old Admin Building, Workshops, etc. The 74" and Visitor Centre are
unaccounted for right now, but are on the worst side of the mountain and
are probably lost. Gary is hearing that the Woolley building suffered water
damage, but may be salvageable. Nothing reported on the Duffield. In
terms of practicalities, the loss of the Workshop may be hardest to deal
with. 
NIFS, the instrument soon to be delivered to Gemini, is lost, and what the
loss of the workshop means for the one they had just been commissioned to
build is yet to be sorted." 









Dr. Lucy Fortson                                                   ph: 
312-322-0338
Director of Astronomy                                         fx: 
312-322-2257
Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum       secty:  312-322-0323
1300 S. Lakeshore Dr.
Chicago, IL 60605


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