[meteorite-list] Jack Horkheimer "Star Hustler" passes away

[Richard Kowalski]

(11409) Horkheimer = 1999 FD9
     Jack F. Horkheimer (b. 1938), the executive director of the
Miami Space-Transit Planetarium, is best known as the creator and
host of the television program Star Hustler (now known as Star
Gazer).

Discovery date : 1999 03 19
Discovery site : Anderson Mesa
Discoverer(s) : LONEOS 



--
Richard Kowalski
Full Moon Photography
IMCA #1081


--- On Sun, 8/22/10, JoshuaTreeMuseum <joshuatreemuseum at embarqmail.com> wrote:

> From: JoshuaTreeMuseum <joshuatreemuseum at embarqmail.com>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Jack Horkheimer "Star Hustler" passes away
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Sunday, August 22, 2010, 8:56 AM
> That is sad news. I loved that guy,
> he was so enthusiastic about astronomy!
> I remember when he got cancer, his TV spots were
> temporarily canceled until
> he recovered, I was worried then he was going to die. 
> I'm sure he got lots
> of kids interested in astronomical phenomena.  They
> should name a star of
> asteroid after him.
> 
> Phil Whitmer
> 
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