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Dear Ken and
collegues from Mt. Stromlo,
on behalf of all my collegues from Goettingen Observatory/Germany I like to tell you how appalled we are to receive the terrible news of the destruction of Mt. Stromlo observatories, facilities and of your homes. Be sure we feel with you -- even though it is almost impossible for us to imagine the full extent of this catastrophe -- happening at a time when many of you certainly were very busy to prepare the IAU General Assembly and related Symposia, to which you invited us so kindly! We will be happy to join into a hopefully world-wide campaign of astronomers to support reconstruction and recovery. Yours very truely and very sad Uta Fritze - v. A. -- Priv.-Doz. Dr. U. Fritze - v. Alvensleben phone: 49-551-39-5049 Universitaetssternwarte fax: 49-551-39-5043 Geismarlandstrasse 11 e-mail: ufritze@uni-sw.gwdg.de 37083 Goettingen, Germany http://www.uni-sw.gwdg.de/~ufritze |