Megan Kathleen Pickett

"Back off, man. I'm a scientist" --Dr. Peter Venkman, Ghostbusters
		Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy Physics Program Coordinator and All-Around Good Egg Dept. of Chemistry & Physics Gyte Hall 271 2200 169th Street Hammond, IN 46323-2094 Phone: (219) 989 2283 Fax: (219) 989 2130 pickett@astro.calumet.purdue.edu Curriculum Vitae
Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, Love the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.) Dorothy Parker, The Flaw in Paganism

Astronomical Images Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) Pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope Sky Maps and Constellations The Constellations and Their Stars Photographs of Constellations Easy to Use Sky Charts H.A. Rey's The Stars, the BEST book on finding constellations Research Institutions Indiana University The University of Leeds Cornell University NASA NSF ESA Projects of Interest The Origins of Solar Systems Protostellar Disks Stars, Bars, and Fizzlers	Current Courses (Fall 2005) ASTRONOMY 364: Intermediate Astronomy SCIENCE 112 Favorite Authors and Suchlike Bill Bryson H. P. Lovecraft (My Aunt) Anola Pickett David Sedaris Sue Townsend The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Indigo Girls The Kinks! Talking Heads Blackadder, Blackadder! The Honeymooners Stanley Kubrick Miscellany National Center for Transgender Equality CSICOP--"I doubt it! Diversity at PUC Phil Plait, the Bad Astronomer Snopes.com--click here before sending more chain letters!
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? Richard P. Feynman
The opinions expressed in my web area are my very own and do not necessarily reflect those of Purdue University, Purdue University Calumet, the good people of Hammond, or, indeed, all but a few wise souls. So There.
Last modified: 7 August 2005.