8-8-95. NYPaper (for paleo-galactic quackers): "New Survey of Sky Finds Most Quasars Are Equally Ancient: The strange objects may be an early stage of galaxy formation." The discovery of new evidence for the epoch of quasar proliferation was one of the important results of a 10-year survey of quasars conducted by astronomers using the 200-inch Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory in southern California. The findings were reported in the July issue of The Astronomical Journal by Dr. Maarten Schmidt of the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Donald P. Schneider of Pennsylvania State University and Dr. James E. Gunn of Princeton University. Other astronomers praised the research and noted that it generally confirmed the results of a complementary survey of the southern sky by a team led by Dr. Patrick Osmer, an astronomer at Ohio State University. Those observations, reported last year, were conducted at telescopes in Australia and Chile. QAK_qak