¨ Martin Beech

Campion College, The University of Regina.

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There are a number of ways you can contact me. A few options follow:

1. Email: Martin.Beech@uregina.ca
2. Telephone: (At Campion College) 359 - 1216.
3. Fax: (At Campion College) 359 - 1200.
4. Snail Mail:
   Campion College, The University of Regina,
   Regina, Saskatchewan,
   Canada S4S 0A2.
5. Semaphore is not recommended
   [I am told, however, that Semaphore in Australia is very pleasant].

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Research Interests:

• NASA ADS - most of my publications are listed in the ADS archive, but links to some of my more recent ones are given below

• Meteor astronomy - the distribution of small objects in the Solar System:
• Fireball phenomena: The Millman Fireball Archive
• The Prairie Meteorite Search - Canadian Fireball and Meteorite Rates - The Declining Meteorite Fall Rate
• The Peekskill fireball - Taurid Fireball Activity - Fireball showers - The Mazapil Meteorite - The problem of ice meteorites -
• The classification of meteor light curves - Lunar meteors -
• Martian meteorite porosity abstracts / papers:
• CSEW5(DaG 476) - MIAC 2005 (DaG 476, EET 79001(a), ALH 84001, NWA 3171, Chassigny) -
• The fall of the Chassigny meteorite - a forensic study -
• The pre-atmospheric size of the Martian meteorite ALH77005 progenitor -
• Physical properties of Martian meteorites: porosity and density measurements -

• The history of science:
• Megalithic Circles - Kepler's Polygons - The Cometarium
• The life and works of W. F. Denning - The English Rose, Robert Hooke's lost constellation -
• Eratosthenes measure of the Earth - The Living Orrery -
• Babbage's Difference Engine number 2 - The clock of the Long Now - Maxwell's Cartesian ovals -
• The Antikythera Mechanism - In the shadow of Aristarchus -

And for those who will, here's a link to asteroid (12343) Martinbeech (1993 DT1)

Books you might wish to buy and will hopefully enjoy:

Suggestions (mostly polite ones) on where to go from here:

1. Physics Department U of R
2. U of R Home Page
3. Astronomy 101 web page
4. Astronomy 201 web page
5. Astronomy 202 web page
6. Astronomy resoures page
7. Hell

January12th,2009