2 0 0 4 A n a m i d z u

Mars/Lowell Conference

 Programme

Conference on Percival LOWELL at Anamidzu in 2004

 

 

was successfully held from

2 May to 5 May 2004

at a Facility of the Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Anamidzu at the Noto Peninsula, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan

 

 

Supported by

 

The Oriental Astronomical Association,

The Lowell Society of Japan,

Toyama Yakumo-Kai (the Hearn Society of Toyama), and

Kanazawa Hoshi-no-Kai

 

Organisers were as follows:

 

Y. YABU, T. SATO, M. MINAMI, T. NAKAJIMA, T ASADA, M. MURAKAMI (OAA),

S. OBI, T. SAKASHITA, H. YOKOO, A. HIRAOKA (LSJ),

R. TAKANARI, Y. MAKINO (TYK),

H. NAKASHIMA, K. OSA (KHK)

 

Speakers included:

 

William SHEEHAN, S. OBI, T. SATO, H. YOKOO, A. HIRAOKA, S. ITOH,

M. MURAKAMI, T. NAKAJIMA, M. MINAMI, T. AKUTSU, M. ADACHI, Y. IGA

R. TAKANARI, Y. MAKINO, K, OSA, S OKUMURA and others

 

Secretary General: Masami MURAKAMI, the OAA Mars Section

  email:  cmo@mars.dti.ne.jp 

web-site:   http://www.mars.dti.ne.jp/~cmo/ISMO.html

 

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The Conference was expedited by the  following

Programme :

 

1 May:

 

  CMO Members entered Anamidzu to prepare the Conference.　(Asada, Akutsu, Sheehan, Murakami, Morita, Nakajima, Nishita, Minami photo)

 

 

 

 

2 May:

 

   Participants gathered by 14:25 JST at the Wakura Port (near the Japan Rail Wakura-Onsen Station), and at 14:30 started on board on a cruising boat to Anamidzu following the same sea-route as LOWELL took in May 1889.

 

ßProf. S Obi

 

 

16:00 Opening of the Lowell Conference; then Yabu, Sakashita, Murakami, Nakajima, and Obi talked.

  

Especially, Murakami put forward problems concerning Lowell to be discussed in a modern way.

 

 

 

 

18:30 Evening Party

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

20:00 Sato, Sheehan, Free disucssion

     Sheehan talked about Lowell and Mars.

 

 

 

 

 

3 May:

 

08:30  Yokoo, on the ET

Hiraoka, on The Occult Japan

Minami, Lowell’s Mars. I

(general structuralist view  against the evolutional theory employed by P Lowell)

 

13:30 - 15:45  Annual Meeting of the Lowell Society of Japan

 

16:00   Itoh,  About Lowell Observatory

Minami, Lowell’s Mars II: Lowell’s Mars in 1894

Sheehan, Lick Observatory: Todd’s Venus Transit in 1882, and Barnard’s Mars

 

19:30   Sato, Lowell’s Footprints and Data in Japan

Takanari, Lowell and Hearn

Minami, on the Lowell Route to/from Noto

Makino, on Lowell’ visit to Ashikura

Okumura, Lowell’s Tenriugawa in 1889 and 1891

 

Toshio SATO

 

 

 

 

4 May:

   

  8:30  Osa, on Noto (Arayama Pass and Amada Pass)

 

 

  10:00 The Lowell Festival at the Anamidzu monument

         Informal Meeting with Bill Sheehan (open to the Noto people)

 

  

 14:00 Sheehan, Murakami, Minami, and Nakajima

 

   Sheehan talked about Pathological Venus of Lowell

     Murakami talked about Lowell Route from Tokyo to Nagano.

Nakajima introduced about Robert Lowell.

Minami about Amy Lowell.

 

 

 

 19:00 12th  CMO Meeting of Planetary Observers. I

   

          Sheehan, Minami, Adachi, and Iga

 

 

5 May:

  

 9:00 -12:00 12th CMO Meeting of Planetary Observers. II

 

            Minami: Lowell’s Mars. III

             Akutsu on 2001 and 2003 Mars

 

 

 

Closed at noon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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