Great Debates in Astronomy

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written by Robert Nemiroff
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Series of debates among leaders in the astronomical community highlight major quests in astronomy and astrophysics. The debates are: The Scale of the Universe (1920) - Curtis & Shapley, The Distance Scale to Gamma-ray Bursts (1995) - Paczynski & Lamb,
The Scale of the Universe (1996) - Tammann & van den Bergh, The Nature of the Universe (1998) - Peebles & Turner.

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Astronomy - Historical Astronomy = History of Astronomy	- Lower Undergraduate	- Reference Material

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Keywords:: debate, history, hot topics, issues, scale, size of universe, universe, unsolved
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created February 5, 2004 by Kara Lehman
Record Updated:: January 28, 2011 by Lyle Barbato

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