Word: arequipa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result of long careful study of Climatic and atmospheric conditions in different parts of the Southern Hemisphere, the Harvard Observatory had decided to transfer its southern station from Arequipa, Peru, to a site in South Africa, probably in or near Bloemfontein. It is expected that observations will begin there within a few months...
Although many successful results have been obtained at Arequipa during the past 35 years, the meterological conditions during the southern summer are rather unfavorable to astronomical observations. For this reason the Observatory has been experimenting in various South African regions for the past few years. After extensive observations, it appears, according to the scientists investigating the subject that during the cloudy season, the sky of the South African plateau is much clearer than that prevailing in Peru...
...Arequipa, the present observation site, has had a long and varied history. An elevated site about 25 miles east of Lima was temporarily chosen in 1889, principally as a point of observation from which to continue the work in photometry and spectroscopic survey begun in the Northern Hemisphere at the University. But Mount Harvard, as this spot was named, proved almost impossible for observations during the rainy season from October to May; when clouds cover the sky almost continuously. Other points in Peru and Chile were visited, and Arequipa was on the whole found to be the only practical choice...
Pickering Picks Arequipa...
Other names of the group celebrate famous wordly municipalities. Botolphia and Cantabria are the representatives in the court of the sky of Boston and Cambridge, and Portlandia and Winchester are the heavenly types of their respective boroughs. To two other asteroids Professor Shapley assigned the names Arequipa and Mandeville, commemorating the branches of the College Observatory. A personal touch is given to the general christening by the naming of three tiny bodies after Dr. Metcalf, Professor G. E. Bond, the first director of the Observatory, and the late Professor E. C. Pickering, director for 40 years...