An astronomers’ meeting turns into a haiku competition
Pick your own winner
IN 2001 Allan Treiman, a researcher at the Lunar and Planetary Institute, in Houston, was working on the one-sentence summary that the annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) requires of presenting authors when inspiration struck. To communicate the essence of a paper entitled “The ALTA II Spectrometer: a Tool for Teaching About Light and Remote Sensing”, he wrote down:
Bright leaves on dark sky
Beyond the brilliant rainbow
Vision fades away
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