Jorge Angel Meynet receives Coghlan Honorary Mention of LIADA
(Photo taken by the student Mariel Buyatti)
On Wednesday October 29, 2008 and before starting your class Basic Course Workshop Astronomy which is held in the Museum of Contemporary Art of the UNL (Universidad Nacional del Litoral) Mr. Angel Meynet received by the Secretary of the LIADA Jorge Coghlan Honorary Mention of the LIADA, Liga Iberoamericana de Astronomía, resolved in the recent appointment of Assembly Members of the institution.
Meynet Angel deserves this distinction because they have spent over 50 years teaching and popularization of astronomy, with a record that exceeds the 2,500 lectures given on astronomy and space issues in all types of social areas and more beyond the borders of their city of Santa Fe
is a founding member of CODE, builder of telescopes and astro, witnessed the launch of Gemini VI and the Apollo XI in Cape Canaveral, starred in many radio and television programs talking about issues of space and in 1991 attended a congress of astronomy held in Grand Island Canary Islands where the large European telescopes. He also participated in Conventions LLADÓ the union, the first in La Plata in 1964 along with several of its founding members.
Other Terms of Honorary Members
The Assembly of Members LIADA of September 27, 2008, in addition to Mr Angel Meynet, also were found LIADA Honorary Members Dr. Jorge Sahade, Founding Member of the LLADÓ in 1958, Dr. Luis A. Milone National Astronomical Observatory of Cordoba and Prof. Antonio Cornejo Municipal Planetarium "Galileo Galilei" in Buenos Aires, all professional astronomers have always interacted with non-professional astronomers throughout Latin America.
