Astronomy and Geophysics v.52 n.2 2011

ISSN 1366-8781

News and Views

Where will the geophysicists come from? (page 2.04)

Sue Bowler

UK joins Russia for a Year of Space (page 2.04)

Science and Technology Committee hearings (page 2.04)

Lawrence sheds light on how STFC allocates astronomy grants (page 2.04)

NERC support for master's ends this year (page 2.04)

Youngsters but no baby boom in NGC 2841 (page 2.05)

Exoplanets: new clarity on dusty discs and young planets (page 2.05)

Climate maths (page 2.06)

Planetary priorities (page 2.06)

New roles in BGA (page 2.06)

Kleopatra a pile of rubble, shedding moons (page 2.06)

Did plasma flow falter to stretch solar minimum? (page 2.06)

Amateurs hit 20 million variable-star observations (page 2.06)

Glory launch failure (page 2.07)

Messenger moves in (page 2.07)

Deep Impact's impact (page 2.07)

Dark matter for Goldilocks galaxy evolution (page 2.07)

Superfluid in neutron stars (page 2.07)

Mars Express reveals new views (page 2.07)

Features

Profile: Paul Crowther (page 2.08)

Paul Crowther

Moon Zoo: citizen science in lunar exploration (pages 2.10–2.12)

Katherine Joy, Ian Crawford, Peter Grindrod, Chris Lintott, Steven Bamford, Arfon Smith, Anthony Cook and Moon Zoo

Solar geology: deducing the Sun's pre-telescope history (pages 2.13–2.16)

Claudio Vita-Finzi

Solar plasma spectroscopy: achievements and future challenges (pages 2.17–2.19)

Giulio Del Zanna, Durgesh Tripathi and Peter Young

The origin and evolution of meteor showers and meteoroid streams (pages 2.20–2.26)

Iwan P Williams

Probing geospace with VLF radio signals (pages 2.27–2.30)

A Governor's observatory (page 2.31)

Ragbir Bhathal

UK Mars research and priorities in the Aurora programme (pages 2.34–2.36)

John Bridges and Axel Hagermann

Reviews

A multiwavelength look at the universe (page 2.37)

One man and his dog (page 2.38)

The Cambridge Atlas of Herschel Objects (page 2.38)

How to Find a Habitable Planet (page 2.38)

New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics (page 2.38)

Society News

Why become a Fellow of the Society? (page 2.39)

The 2010 RAS Fellowships (page 2.39)

Using the RAS Library (page 2.39)

Think grants! (page 2.39)

New Fellows (page 2.39)