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In article <stephens.726164789@gdim> stephens@geod.emr.ca (Dave Stephenson) writes:
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>Now that you mention Chiron, could someone give me a few references
>to popular articles on Chiron. I know a space artist who wants to
>paint as it in its outgassing phases. Sky and Telescope articles would
>be ideal. He wants to make the painting realistic. 
>Thanks.

Hmmm... the closest thing I have to a 'popular' article on Chiron is an article
by Alan Stern in the September 1992 issue of Astronomy, "Where Has Pluto's 
Family Gone?" (pp 41-47).   Chiron is mentioned in a couple of paragraphs on
pp. 46-47, with just some basic information.  Your best bet would be to look
at the research literature on Chiron -- there are a few papers published each
year about Chiron.  For information about outbursts I'd recommend Luu and 
Jewitt (Astron. Jour., 1990) and Buratti and Dunbar (Astrophys. Jour., 1991)
as two examples of recent papers about outbursts on Chiron.

(Incidentally, I'm doing some research on Chiron, and will be going up to
Palomar this week with Bonnie Buratti to get some more data.  Unfortunately,
it doesn't appear that the weather will be cooperating for most of the run...)
:-(

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