From john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au Tue Jun 17 00:05:05 2014 From: john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au (John O'Byrne) Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 00:05:05 +1000 Subject: [ASA] Bill Bradfield Message-ID: I am sad to report the recent death of Australian comet hunter Bill Bradfield (1928-2014). Bill Bradfield was the 20th Century?s foremost visual comet hunter, discovering 18-comets between 1972 and 2004. He won the ASA?s page Medal in 1981 and has asteroid 3430 Bradfield named in his honour. He was also a former employee of DSTO in Adelaide who worked as a research scientist on rocket-propulsion systems. Bill died peacefully after a long illness on the 9th of June. John ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JOHN O?BYRNE Associate Head (Teaching & Learning), School of Physics Associate Dean (Standards), Faculty of Science Secretary, Astronomical Society of Australia Inc. 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Election opens: June 13, 2014 Election closes: 5pm (AWST), June 20, 2014 Please visit the ECR webpage for nomination descriptions from each of the candidates: http://asaecr.smp.uq.edu.au/ecr-elections-nominees/ The electronic voting form is available from: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GRVB535 Regards, Cathryn Trott ECR Returning Office ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JOHN O?BYRNE Associate Head (Teaching & Learning), School of Physics Associate Dean (Standards), Faculty of Science Secretary, Astronomical Society of Australia Inc. 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