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		<title>A Match Under Star Light</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday, July 7th, 2010, together with the &#8220;Rudolf Walter&#8221; foundation &#8211; Timisoara branch, the Astronomical Observatory of Timisoara, and the &#8220;Antares&#8221; astro-club of Timisoara, I joined other countries in organizing &#8220;A Match under Starlight&#8221;. The idea pertains to my friends, Azhy Hasan from the Iraqi Kurdistan, and Marcelo  Souza from Brazil &#8211; two enthusiastic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 12th, 2010: Street Delivery, Timisoara</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year, I approached Cosmin Lungu and Anca Pol from the &#8220;Carturesti&#8221; bookshops, suggesting them to host two space events &#8211; Yuri&#8217;s Night and the World Space Week. Both YN and WSW were highly succesful; the public present at Yuri&#8217;s Night interracted with Andrei Juravle, Laszlo Farkas and other astronomers from the Antares, Altair and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Establishment of the RA Heinlein Club in Lupeni</title>
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		<link>http://www.virgiliupop.com/?p=397</link>
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		<title>Yuri&#8217;s Night at the Astronomical Observatory of Timisoara</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Astronomical Observatory of Timisoara, the &#8220;Antares&#8221; Astroclub and the Romanian Space Agency organised the local &#8220;Yuri&#8217;s Night&#8221; on the evening of Sunday, April 11th. Bad weather precluded astronomical observations, but the people in attendance were enchanted by Georgiana Stancioni, Iulia Ioanas and Carmen Paulescu, three violin students who played a Scherzino by Karol Miculi. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yuri&#8217;s Night: &#8220;Featured Interview &#8211; Virgiliu Pop&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brice Russ from Yuri&#8217;s Night headquarters asked me to share the secret of Yuri&#8217;s Night success in Romania. I happily obliged. Here&#8217;s the original interview.
&#8220;Over the past few years, Romania has become one of the most booming areas on Earth for hosting Yuri’s Night parties. This year alone, Romania will be hosting at least 13 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Zambian Space Program of the 1960s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1964, while most of the African countries were struggling for their independence, a Zambian science teacher named Edward Mukuka Nkoloso was planning to beat the United States and the Soviet Union in their race to the Moon. Training his &#8220;afronauts&#8221; in 44-gallon oil drums which would be rolled down a hill to emulate weightlessness, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.virgiliupop.com/?p=384</link>
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		<title>Lecture at the Physics Department, University of Zambia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The University of Zambia hosted me for a lecture on space technology and its applications for Africa (with Romania as a possible model to follow), on space education, and on the Zambian Space Programme of the 1960&#8217;s (more about this, later). In attendace were staff and students from the UNZA Physics department. Thanks to Nchimunya [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.virgiliupop.com/?p=374</link>
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		<title>&#8220;World Space Week and Yuri&#8217;s Night as means of communicating astronomy with the Romanian public&#8221; CAP2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The main reason of participating at the CAP2010 conference in Cape Town, besides attending the &#8220;Astronomy101 school&#8221;, was to deliver a paper entitled &#8220;World Space Week and Yuri&#8217;s Night as means of communicating astronomy with the Romanian public&#8221;:
&#8220;This paper will present two yearly opportunities &#8211; Yuri&#8217;s Night April 12th) and the World Space Week (October [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.virgiliupop.com/?p=367</link>
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		<title>Interview for the SABC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Christina Scott (&#8220;Science Matters&#8221; (SAfm), associate editor, science: Mail & Guardian; ZA) invited some participants at the Astronomy101 school to be her guests on her radio show. I was happy to share with the South African public news about the Romanian Space Agency and its soon-too-be-launched CubeSat, Goliat, and about other space matters in Romania.


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		<link>http://www.virgiliupop.com/?p=371</link>
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		<title>Astronomy Outreach Session, Langa Township</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a practical means of communicating astronomy with the public, we headed to the Isilimela High School in the Langa Township. Jim Volp and I, together with the other Astronomy101 students, interacted with the township kids, answered some of their questions about the Universe, and helped them launch water rockets.



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