On behalf of the Iceinspace forum and moderators, I would like to extend a warm welcome to Mr and Mrs van der Velden, parents of Erwin who have come to Iceinspace looking for information about Erwins past astronomy interests and friends (Erwin's parents go under the online name of
amt41).
Erwins passing affected not only those who knew him personally, but many like myself, who only knew Erwin from his online posts, felt a profound sense of loss and sadness at his passing.
We would like members who knew Irwin and who have any anecdotes to post to contribute to this thread and help assist Erwins parents in finding information about his activities here in Australia.
I'll start the ball rolling by listing
this link (Anne, click on the blue link to the left) to a thread about a minor planet being named in his honour.
Please contribute your stories or post links to past threads/posts where there is any information that you may consider of interest to Anne and her husband.