An astronomers' meeting turns into a haiku competition

IN 2001 Allan Treiman, a researcher at the Lunar and Planetary Institute, in Houston, was working on the one-sentence summary that the annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) requires of presenting authors when inspiration struck. To communicate the essence of a paper entitled "The ALTA II Spectrometer: a Tool for Teaching About Light and Remote Sensing", he wrote down: Bright leaves on dark skyBeyond the brilliant rainbowVision fades away The next year Ralph Lorenz, another planeta...