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Write a story
Dr Claire Flanagan
University of the Witwatersrand Planetarium, Johannesburg, South Africa
Get someone else to proofread stuff you send out into public. If there is no-one to proofread, take a break from the material and read it with a fresh eye. I didn't do this a couple of weeks ago - it was a note about the 40th anniversary of the Apollo landing. I calculated, re-calculated, checked, cross-referenced and double-checked the actual time (4:56am) of the landing. In the end, I sent a note (to 7 000 people) that said "On June 21st 1969, at 4:56am (South African Time), Neil Armstrong took his first step onto the Moon". They landed in JULY!
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