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Crash! Bang! Boom! ANNOUNCEMENTS! Aug / Sep 01 Web Surfin’ Sites to check out : INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION 0F - http://www.locusmag.com ASTRONOMICAL ARTISTS - http://ciclops.lpl.arizona.edu/ - http://ciclops.lpl.arizona.edu/ciclops/ BOARD OF TRUSTEES Kara Szathmàry The Official Newsletter of the images_jupiter_new.html Dave Hardy - http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-in/db?name=433 Jackie Burns Dirk Terrell - http://home.interstat.net/~slawcio/artsf.html Don Davis - http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/ Mark Garlick BE Johnson - http://www.flight100.org/gallery/ig-pigg.html Ron Miller - http://lonestar.texas.net/~efdietz/ Rick Sternbach International Association of stamps/shut1175.htm OFFICERS - http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/ PRESIDENT Astronomical Artists missions/discover_plane_001122.html Kara Szathmàry VICE PRESIDENT - http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/photo/ Dirk Terrell - http://www.crosslink.net/~blackcat/ V.P./MEMBERSHIP FOR UK/EUROPE Callistopeaks2.jpg Jackie E. Burns CRASH! BANG! BOOM! - http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/JACpublic/ MEMBERSHIP Kim Poor UKIRT/news/Michelle_fl.htm TREASURER - http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/ Beth Avary pr-2001/phot-27-01.html TREASURER UK/EUROPE - http://www.sundog.clara.co.uk/halo/ Dave Hardy EDITOR, PULSAR / PR downld.htm Jon Ramer - http://www.swri.org/press/impact.htm DIRECTOR OF FELLOWS - http://www.psi.edu/projects/siberia/ Don Davis siberia.html DIRECTOR OF EXHIBITIONS Gary Harwood Book of the Month: IAAA POINTS OF CONTACT “HARDYWARE: The Art of David A. MEMBERSHIPS/US SUBSCRIPTIONS: Hardy” by Chris Morgan and David A. Kim Poor IAAA c/o Novaspace Galleries Hardy, forward by Stephen Baxter, PO Box 37197 Sterling Publishing Co. Tucson, AZ 85740 Annual rates by member type, $40, $45, Do you have an announcement you like to or $50, non-US members send payment in pounds sterling to DAH below. share with the IAAA? If so send it in to Make all payments out to “IAAA”. [email protected] or “Jon Ramer, NON-US SUBSCRIPTIONS: 1112 Magnolia Bayou Blvd, Ocean Springs, David A. Hardy MS, 32564, USA”. 99 Southam Road Hall Green, B28 0AB, England Tel: (44) 121 777 1802 Remember: those IAAA members that Fax:: (44) 121 777 2792 e-mail: [email protected] Craters, craters everywhere! The entire solar system shows attend conventions, we now have free evidence of impacts of objects from space, so it’s only fitting to see flyers to hand out to interested people, VICE PRESIDENT UK/EUROPE : Jackie E. Burns that evidence in a Pulsar! Above NASA images are of the Moon, with a brief history of the IAAA, what we No. 1 Park Side, Fort William Road stand for, and how to join. Contact Gary Vange, Basildon Mars, Mercury, and Miranda. Essex, SS16 5JX, England Harwood or Jackie Burns to obtain some Tel: (44) 1268 551308 Editor: Jon Ramer IAAA Website: http://www.iaaa.org for the convention you attend. e-mail: [email protected] IN THIS PULSAR… Astronomical -- LUNAR -- Profile: Elen Feinberg Feature of the Month : -- CRATERS -- Essentially all lunar craters, regardless of their size, were produced by A Show In Tuscon From Bill Hartmann the impact of cosmic objects or meterorite impact. These objects strike the Profile: Gary Tonge surface at a very high speed (70,000 km/hour) and are shattered. Some of the material is vaporized, some is melted, and some is tossed out of the ArtTip #1 From Bill Hartmann target area, piling up around the hole produced. A small amount of the fragmented material can be great thrown distances from the impact area ArtTip #2 From Bob Eggleton along straight paths, creating an effect called “rays.” ArtTip #3 From Don Davis The surface of the moon is scarred by millions of impact craters. Since there is no atmosphere on the Moon to help protect it from bombardment, Cassini Imaging Team Needs OUR Help! From Dan Durda craters remain unchanged until a new impact happens. Craters range in How the Heck Did They Do That!?! Trivia size up to many hundreds of kilometers. The most enormous craters have been flooded by lava leaving only parts of the outline visible. The low Kudos Korner elevation maria (seas) have fewer craters than other areas because these areas formed more recently, and have had less time to be hit. Artists in the Heavens Trivia The size, mass, speed, and angle of the falling object determine the Astronomical ‘Feature’ of the Month - From Jon Ramer size, shape, and complexity of the resulting crater. Small, slow objects LUNAR CRATERS have a low energy impact and cause small, simple craters. Large, fast objects release a lot of energy and form large, complex craters. Very large Announcements impacts can even cause secondary cratering, as ejected material falls back to the ground, forming new, smaller craters, or a series of craters. From the Editor- Most of the craters on the Moon are circular. The few craters that are not Hi Gang! There were just too many “hints” that I should focus this issue on circular, like Messier and Messier A the leftovers from cosmic billiards for me to ignore. So, here it is! Lots of (pictured at the left) in the Mare great art tips for painting craters. Be sure to check out the “Call For Help” Fecunditatis, are an enigma. Scientists article on page 8. Next time we’re have not yet determined how these oddly- going “surrealistic.” See you then! Jon! shaped craters were formed. Most craters on the Moon that have diameters less than about 15 kilometers Caloris Basin Impact have a simple, bowl-like form. Lunar craters with a diameter over about 15 By Rick Sterbach kilometers have more complex forms, including shallow, flat floors made of Cover of an old Analog solidified lava, central uplifting (a single peak, multiple peaks, or a ring), magazine illustrating the article and terraces on the inner-rim walls. Simple impact craters have bowl-shaped depressions, mostly with “Mercury’s Missing Divot,” smooth walls. This type of crater generally has a diameter less than 9 theorizing that the impacting miles (15 km). Their depth is about 20% of the diameter. object which formed the Caloris Complex impact craters have a single or multiple peaks in the middle of Basin pretty well exploded the crater. These craters have diameters between about 12 and 110 miles outward and disappeared. Not (20 and 175 km), and the central uplift is usually one or a few peaks. sure if that’s true or if I recall Craters with a diameter over 110 miles (175 km) can have more complex, the premise correctly, but the ring-shaped uplifts within the crater. A impact basin is an impact crater that has a rim diameter greater than craters were fun to do. 185 miles (300 km). There are over 40 impact basins on the Moon. These catastrophic impacts produce faulting and other crust deformations. 2 11 Born in New York, Elen has been a Profile: Elen Feinberg professional painter for several years and has won numerous prestigious awards such as the James Cavalier Center for Creativity, Fellowship in Painting, Valletta, Malta, and Fulbright Scholar Award, Germany. A Bill Hartmann recruit, she has this to say about her art: “The impetus for these paintings is derived primarily from images of the galaxy which have been flashed back to us from satellites and space missions. What is so provocative about these images are the ways in which their visual forms bind to their psychological content. My study of light, for example, is also a meditation on the nature of illumination. My interest in space is both hepatic and philosophical, that is to say, besides the felt response one may have to deep or shallow space, these spaces are also a meditation on infinity and finitude. And scale, physically and psychologically, is meant to extend from the most potent to the most cloistered, between the grand and the infinitesimal, the macrocosmic and the microcosmic. These images and their varying visual and psychological components -- fragility and persistence, assuredness and doubt, the sublime and the gross -- are forced to contend with one another within a single world of chaos and structure, analogues for what is ultimately our destiny.” Sheperd Moons By Joe Bergeron The weirdly braided F-ring of Saturn is confined by two tiny From Bill Hartmann “shepherd” moons which orbit just on either side of it. Published by A SHOW IN TUSCON Time-Life Books in their Voyage Through the Universe series. I was asked, along with Kim Poor, to curate a show of space and astronomical art for the fledgling Museum of Contemporary Art in Tucson. I've just been spending the last few days putting this together, working with ARTISTS IN THE HEAVENS... Novaspace Gallery and Kim to supply some paintings and also supplying a A couple of months ago, member Jim Scotti mentioned on the listserver that lot of my own and some pieces from my collection. there are several space artists that have been honored with a name in the The result is shaping up to be a fairly major exhibit of space art, drawing "heavens". Since the theme for this month is craters, I figured this would fairly heavily from IAAA painters as well as others. Maybe 45-50 pieces make an nice little story. Six space artists have had asteroids named for hanging for around 6 weeks. I've written an introductory statement which I them, they are 3129 Bonestell (Chesley), 3341 Hartmann (William K.), 6584 hope will go on big poster-sized panel at the entrance, about the Ludekpesek, 6446 Lomberg (Jon), 6141 Durda (Dan), and 3594 Scotti (Jim). background of this type of art, the Hudson River and frontier artists' Congrats to our four members! Now - any of you gentlemen care to paint a connection, Rudaux, Bonestell, and the IAAA.
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