June 23, 2016 Page 3 Hawthorne Happenings News for the ‘City of Good Neighbors’ From City Clerk Norb Huber “Sunshine Superman” Screening This Monday, June 27th at the Hawthorne Museum the Hawthorne Historical Society will be showing the recently released movie entitled, “Sunshine Superman”. It is the story of Carl Boenish, the Hawthorne resident who invented BASE jumping. The somewhat tragic story is very moving and the scenic photography in the movie is spectacular. The screening will begin at 6:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served. Come out and see a great movie and meet some good neighbors. Airplane Flight Patterns First it was red light cameras, the next week I moved on to the homeless problem, and last week we took on illegal fireworks. Here’s another Hawthorne problem that has been going on for quite some time and there is no real fix to it. This week’s problem are low flying airplanes passing over our homes illegally. Yes, the FAA has flight patterns that pilots are instructed to follow. Jet airliners departing LAX are to fly out over the ocean and turn North or South when they are at a certain altitude. There have been times in the middle of the night where I hear a plane and it sounds like its coming right into our bedroom. I live in the Ramona tract and I’ve been able to read the numbers on the jet’s wings. Now, since a single engine test flight plane came down on a town house on Broadway, we find out that the small aircraft pilots are to make a turn over the closed Hawthorne Mall and turn down Hawthorne Blvd. instead of traveling over the residential neighborhoods to the west of the Hawthorne Airport. Even the traffic controllers are not always following the designated take off and landing procedures that are in place for our city’s airfield. Let’s just hope that the crash that occurred recently will lead to enforcement of the strict guide lines that are put in place for the safety of our neighborhoods. Good Neighbors Day Hawthorne United It’s coming soon. The 6th Annual Hawthorne Hometown Fair - Good Family Fun - Live Music on stage - Classic Car Show - Great Food - Talent Competitions - Games for the kids - Vendors - Art Walk - Historical Museum - Tours of the old Hawthorne Jail (before it is torn down) - The Hawthorne Historical Society sponsors this event with the sole purpose of providing a great summer activity for ALL the residents of Hawthorne. We want to bring all of our GOOD NEIGHBORS together to celebrate our unity and diversity. Instead of downgrading our city, let’s build it up by coming together. We want to build a “closer community”. Invite your friends to attend. We are looking for Hawthorne talent. If you know of an individual or a group that would like to perform please contact us. If you wish to be a vendor, exhibitor, or show your car, just let us know. Our contact phone number is 310-370-0675 or email me at norbhuber@gmail.com.) Let us be HAWTHORNE UNITED. Mark your calendars for Saturday, July 16th. ***Special Announcement! Late breaking news! JUST ADDED: This year we will have a “beer garden” as part of Good Neighbors Day. So, instead of having coffee with the clerk or coffee with the cops, now you can have a “Cold One with the Clerk”. I have to warn you that it takes very little alcohol to get me going. I may be working the event also, so you may have to hoist one on your own. I can’t think of a better way to bring our good neighbors together than to have a fair number of our citizens enjoy a cold one in beautiful, downtown Hawthorne. Most of our problems would disappear, at least for one afternoon. THIS ONE’s for you Hawthorne! I can’t wait! Car Show It’s not too late to enter your car in Hawthorne’s Car Show to be held during Good Neighbors Day. Every entry will receive a “goodie bag” full of nice items donated by vendors. We will be awarding trophies to cars in several categories. Plus, it’s just a good day to hang out with your friends. Please contact us if you have a car you wish to enter. Hall of Fame Banquet In case you are wondering when the Hawthorne Hall of Fame Banquet will be held, we have decided to move it to October. It usually is held the night before Good Neighbors Day. It was too much work to pull off two events on the same weekend. Information regarding the banquet will be released this summer. Gone Fishing Next week I’ll be going on our annual “men/ boys only” fishing trip up to the western side of the High Sierras. This will mark our 27th consecutive summer that we have spent a week fishing, camping and drinking cold ones up at a lake named Florence. Don’t try to go there, the road is bad and we really don’t want any company enjoying our beautiful, secret spot. Let’s just say the fishing is terrible, the bugs are bad, and there are no campsites. I will see ya all when I return in a week. • Email me at: norbhuber@gmail.com Police Reports Mon 6/6/16 to Sun 6/12/16 ROBBERY 3100 W ROSECRANS AV FAST FOOD STORE Mon 6/6/16 13:00 P r o p e r t y Ta ken: MISC BILL DENOMINATION, APPROX $300 IN CASH BURGLARY 13900 S HAWTHORNE WY Mon 6/6/16 13:13 BURGLARY – RESIDENTIAL 12200 S FREEMAN AV HOUSE Mon 6/6/16 15:09 Property Taken: HP LAPTOP (NEW) Method of Entry: PRIED POE: SLIDING DOOR BURGLARY – RESIDENTIAL 4500 W 118TH ST HOUSE Tue 6/7/16 11:26 Method of Entry: OPENED BURGLARY – RESIDENTIAL 4500 W 118TH ST HOUSE Tue 6/7/16 11:26 Method of Entry: OPENED BURGLARY – RESIDENTIAL 4500 W 118TH ST HOUSE Tue 6/7/16 11:26 Method of Entry: OPENED BURGLARY 4500 W 118TH ST Tue 6/7/16 11:26 ROBBERY W 132ND ST/S JEFFERSON AV STREET, HIGHWAY, ALLEY Wed 6/8/16 12:57 Property Taken: LG K7 CELL PHONES (213-835-7801) BURGLARY 13300 S ROSELLE AV New Planet Is Largest Discovered Orbiting Two Suns Fri 6/10/16 07:57 P r o p e r t y Ta ke n : OLD WORK IDENTIFICATION (MISSION HOSPITAL) ROBBERY 11800 S HAWTHORNE BL GROCERY, SUPERMARKET Fri 6/10/16 16:04 Property Taken: CHICKEN BURGLARY – COMMERCIAL 4600 W EL SEGUNDO BL LAUNDRYMAT Sat 6/11/16 06:48 Property Taken: COMPUTER EQUIP TOOLS CURRENCY Property Taken: $600 in misc bills and coins, DVR Recorder for security camera system, Blue in color Makita handsaw with red metal case Method of Entry: PRIED POE: OTHER DOOR Entry Loc: FRONT BURGLARY – COMMERCIAL 4800 W ROSECRANS AV STORAGE SHED, PUBLIC Sat 6/11/16 16:25 Property Taken: various LEGO playsets $400 each Method of Entry: PRIED POE: ROOF BURGLARY – RESIDENTIAL 4800 W ROSECRANS AV STORAGE SHED Sun 6/12/16 13:06 Property Taken: 25 BOXES OF PACKAGED LEGGOS (TOYS) Method of Entry: UNKNOWN ROBBERY W 139TH ST/S CERISE AV Sun 6/12/16 22:34 Property Taken: $1,000 CASH IN US CURRENCY ($100, 50’S AND $20’S) • Looking Up By Bob Eklund If you cast your eyes toward the constellation Cygnus the Swan, you’ll be looking in the direction of the largest planet yet discovered around a double-star system. It’s too faint to see with the naked eye, but a team led by astronomers from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and San Diego State University used the Kepler Space Telescope to identify the new planet, Kepler-1647b. Planets that orbit two stars are called circumbinary planets, or “Tatooine” planets, after Luke Skywalker’s homeland in “Star Wars.” To detect planets, the Kepler telescope looks for slight dips in brightness that hint a planet might be transiting in front of a star, blocking some of the star’s light. “But finding circumbinary planets is much harder than finding planets around single stars,” said SDSU astronomer William Welsh, one of the paper’s coauthors. “The transits are not regularly spaced in time and they can vary in duration and even depth.” Once a candidate planet is found, researchers employ advanced computer programs to determine if it really is a planet. It can be a grueling process. Laurance Doyle, a coauthor on the paper and astronomer at the Carl Sagan Center, SETI Institute, noticed a transit back in 2011, but more data and several years of analysis were needed to confirm that the transit was indeed caused by a circumbinary planet. A network of amateur astronomers in the KELT Follow-Up Network provided additional observations that helped the researchers estimate the planet’s mass. Kepler-1647b is 3,700 light-years away and approximately 4.4 billion years old, roughly the same age as the Earth. The stars are similar to the Sun, with one slightly larger than our home star and the other slightly smaller. The planet has a mass and radius nearly identical to that of Jupiter, making it the largest transiting circumbinary planet ever found. “It’s a bit curious that this biggest planet took so long to confirm, since it is easier to find big planets than small ones,” said SDSU astronomer Jerome Orosz, another coauthor on the study. “It took so long to confirm because its orbital period is so long.” The planet takes 1,107 days (just over three years) to orbit its host stars, the longest period of any confirmed transiting exoplanet found so far. The planet is also much further away from its stars than any other circumbinary planet, breaking with the tendency for circumbinary planets to have close-in orbits. Interestingly, its orbit puts the planet within the so-called habitable zone. Like Jupiter, however, Kepler-1647b is a gas giant, making the planet unlikely to host life. Yet if the planet has large moons, they could potentially be suitable for life. “Habitability aside, Kepler-1647b is important because it is the tip of the iceberg of a theoretically predicted population of large, long-period circumbinary planets,” Welsh said. “It looks like more than 40 percent of circumbinary planets are in the habitable zones of their stars,” Doyle said. “It seems that the scene from Star Wars where Luke Skywalker is watching the double sunset may not be so rare after all. But physics might be more difficult—everything from shadows to rainbows would come in pairs.” • CORRECTION We regret that in our June 16 issue, we inadvertently left out Haleemon Anderson’s byline and Hector Felix photo credit. We regret the error. •
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