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The Discovery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

R.D. McNaught
R.D. McNaught*
Affiliation:
UK Earth Satelllite Research Unit
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Abstract

The story of the discovery of SN 1987A by Ian Shelton and Oscar Duhalde is well known, but many other events around the time of discovery are largely unknown. I shall describe these events and some of the confusion generated on 24 February 1987.

Type
Research Article
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 7 , Issue 4 , 1988 , pp. 352 - 354
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1988

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