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[beckyc]

It's great doing astronomy stuff. I get to reference a paper from 1866 in my report. How neat is that?

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[rochvelleth]

Aw, you beat me by about thirty years!

[rochvelleth]

Erm, you know, apart from the three-thousand-year old stuff I get to cite ;)

[beckyc]

Yes, well, asteroids were formed at basically the time the solar system formed, and that's a bit older than three thousand years ;-P. And, yes, I get to talk about that :-).

Of course, that's *nothing* compared to the astronomy reports some people are writing up, I suppose :-).

[jane_somebody]

That didn't strike me as especially exciting - and then I reflected that life is probably different for non-classicists!

[ptc24]

I think some of my early reports referenced stuff from early in the 20th century (obscure reactions that hardly anyone uses any more), but 1866 beats that cold.

[vyvyan]

Heh - my earliest reference in my thesis was only 1884. But it was in German.

[wellinghall]

*nods* That's ... pretty neat.

What was the paper you were referencing?

[beckyc]

See here