International Years

[Rob Seaman]

I was predisposed to click over to the IHY site since I knew that  
2005 was the World Year of Physics that that 2009 (the 400th  
anniversary of Galileo's pointing a telescope upward) will be the  
International Year of Astronomy.  Myself, I was born during the  
grandpappy of such "Years", the IGY.  For more IYs, see:

	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_International_Years

For instance, 2008 will be the International Year of the Potato.   
Freedom Fries for one and all!  Beware Darth Tater!  (http:// 
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf1SSOTnbKs)

This presents an opportunity for VO outreach in general, and for  
VOEvent in particular.  Few astronomical topics are more accessible  
to the public than things that go bump in the night.  It is precisely  
cosmic cataclysms that bridge the incomprehensible cosmological  
distances and vast aeons of time of the Carl Sagans and Stephen  
Hawkings.

Rob
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