Why
did we choose Alpha Centauri?
We chose AC because it was an interesting subject. We had heard
a few things about the star system and we wanted to find out more.
What better way than doing it in a project-contest?
We
started looking for information on Alpha Centauri immediately
but soon found out it wasn’t a very popular topic to write
about. We first tried the library at our school where we found
just one book.
We also tried the public library in our city Maastricht (the Netherlands)
which also didn’t have much: just one book on the matter
and even in there you had to squeeze the information out.
Our next step was to look on the internet: which seemed our last
resource! Just one problem though: there happens to be a game
called Alpha Centauri which had most sites, and just very few
had information on Alpha Centauri. So again it was whole drag
finding information on Alpha Centauri because simply looking on
www.google.com just wasn’t enough.
In
our last attempt to retrieve a little information we called two
observatories in our direct neighborhood. (Dordrecht and Heerlen)
the people who helped us here seemed very helpful and wrote down
our e-mail addresses to send us information.
We also requested information by sending an e-mail to ESA... Unfortunately
we didn't get any reply; neither did we get any reply from the
Royal South African Observatory.
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