- Chuck Shramek
Chuck Shramek (1950-2000) was a Houston-area radio personality.
Shramek is best known as the amateur astronomer who photographed a bright "Saturn-like object", adjacent to
Comet Hale-Bopp . Although some claim it is an ordinary star, it generated considerable interest after Shramek called theArt Bell radio show, culminating in the Heaven's Gate mass suicide.External links
* [http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/9923/chuck.html Obit]
* [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,986171,00.html The Man Who Spread the Myth] -TIME magazine
* [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,986056,00.html Crazy About Comets] - TIME
* [http://www.csicop.org/si/9707/art-bell.html Art Bell, Heaven's Gate, and Journalistic Integrity] -CSICOP
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