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The Fifth ASSA Symposium was held on 29th November to 1st December 2002 at Aloe Ridge Hotel near Pretoria.

Symposium Organising Committee:
Tim Cooper (Chairman and Program Organiser), Marianne Barendse (Treasurer), Trevor Green (Registration), Louis Barendse (Venue and Catering), Joy Flodgson (Advertising), Mike Haslam (Secretary), Janet Cooper (additional member) and Theo Pistorius (co-opted member).

Summary of the symposium and programme:
Announcement:  symp_announcement-2002
Call for papers:  symp_call_papers-2002    symp_call_papers_2-2002    symp_call_papers_3-2002
Provisional Programme:  symp_provisional_programme-2002
Report Back on Symposium:  reportback_symp_2002-cooper   List of Attendees:  list-of-attendees
Curriculum Vitae of the Speakers:  symposium-cvs

Talks given at the Symposium:

• Brian Warner; “Stellar apoplexy, convalescence and recovery:
  The life cycles of cataclysmic variable stars”:
  Paper:  lifecycle_cataclysmic_variable_stars-warner    Presentation:  presentation-1-warner
• Janet Mattei; Danie Overbeek Memorial Lecture: “Contributions of South African  Amateur Astronomers to Variable Star Research”
  Paper: (none available)   Presentation:  presentation-02-mattei
• Fabio Frescura; “ Pulsars”:
  Paper: (none available)   Presentation:  presentation-03-frescura
• Hannes Calitz; “Recent Developments at Boyden Observatory” , “ Boyden Obser­vatory’s Public Program”:
  Paper: (none available)   Presentation:  presentation-04-calitz1 /  presentation-04-calitz2 /  presentation-04-calitz3 /  presentation-04-calitz4
• Gerrit Penning; “The Lamont-Hussey Observatory Bloemfontein, South Africa”:
  Paper: (none available)   Presentation:
• Derck Smits and M. Muller; The W UMa-type variable star V759 Cen:
  Paper:  w_uma_variable_star_v759_cen-smits  Presentation:  presentation-06-smits
• Brian Frasier; “The formation of oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere”:
  Paper:  oxygen_atmosphere-fraser   Presentation: (none available)
• Ludwig Conbrinck; “Why Space Geodecy”:
  Paper: (none available)   Presentation:  presentation-08-combrink
• Berto Monard; “Searching for supernovae”:
  Paper:  supernovae-monard  Presentation:  presentation-09-monard
• Tim Cooper; “Recent ASSA Results on Comets and Meteors”:
  Paper:  paper-10-cooper   Presentation:  presentation-10-cooper
• Brian Fraser; “Delta Scorpii Variability 2000-2002”:
  Paper: (none available)   Presentation:  presentation-11-fraser
• Trevor Gould; “The Southern African Meteorite Recovery Program”:
  Paper:  sa_meteorite_recovery-gould     Presentation: (none available)
• Jan Hers; “Variable stars in South Africa – An historical review”:
  Paper:  variable_stars-hers  Presentation: (none available)
• Chris de Coning; “Website for the Historical Section of ASSA”:
  Paper:  paper-14-de-coning   Presentation: (none available)
• Magda Streicher; “Deep-sky dedication”:
  Paper:  deep-sky_dedication-streicher  Presentation:  presentation-15-streicher
• Theo Pistorius; “Construction and Use of an Audine CCD Camera”:
  Paper:  audine_ccd-camera-pistorius   Presentation: (none available)
• Auke Slotegraaf: “Nonstellar objects in old star catalogues – Part 1”:
  Paper:  old_star_catalogues-slotegraaf    Presentation: (none available)
• Tim Cooper; “A history of comet discovery from South Africa”:
  Paper:  sa_comet_discovery-cooper   Presentation:  presentation-18-cooper
• Rupert Hurley; “De la Caille at the Cape”:
  Paper:  lacaille_cape-hurley    Presentation: (none available)
• Louis Barendse; “Invention and the development of the Telescope”:
  Paper:  development_tel-barendse    Presentation: (none available)
• Neil Young; “Touching History – Jack Bennett, a link to the past”:
  Paper: (none available)     Presentation:  presentation-21-young
• Frikkie de Bruyn; “The creation of matter in the early Universe: A quantum perspective”:
  Paper:  matter_early_univ-de_bruyn     Presentation: (none available)
• Eben van Zyl; “The Period-Luminosity Law – how an amateur was first to
  determine the distance to delta Cephei”:
  Paper:  paper-23-eben  Presentation: (none available)
• Barbara Cunow; “Investigation of optical and near-infrared surface brightness profiles of spiral galaxies”:
  Paper:  spiral_galaxies_optical_infrared-cunow   Presentation: (none available)
• Robbie Yates; “Light Pollution – a growing world-wide problem”:
  Paper:  light_pollution-yates   Presentation: (none available)
• Cooper et al; “Reminiscences of the 2001 Total Solar Eclipse”:
  Paper:  paper-27-joint   Presentation: (none available)

Poster Paper:
David Crawford: “Protecting the Night”:  protecting_night-crawford

Attendees at Symposium:

list-of-attendees