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Electronic Mail

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Chris Benn
Chris Benn*
Affiliation:
Royal Greenwich Observatory, Herstmonceux, East Sussex, BN27 1RP, United Kingdom

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Astronomers have always had a special need for rapid communication over large distances, partly because of their interest in experiments requiring long baselines. Examples: Eratosthenes’ measurement of the circumference of the Earth; determination of longitude at sea; solar-eclipse tests of general relativity; very-long-baseline interferometry. Of these, at least the second has prompted innovations in communications techniques (beginning with the Greenwich time ball).

More recently, the pressing need to travel widely for clean air and aether, and the international flavour of the resulting collaborations, has given astronomers particular incentive to explore the latest communications innovation: electronic mail.

Type
Part 3. Searching for Astronomical Information
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 110: Library and Information Services in Astronomy , 1989 , pp. 102 - 105
Copyright
Copyright © United States Naval Observatory 1989