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...altitude of 94 miles, and fall into the eclipse's shadow at a specific point. "Either it goes during that launch window or we pack it up and go home and wait for the next eclipse," said Edmund Reeves, shortly after supervising the hook-up of the 120-pound instrument package with the rocket at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland...
...Happy Organ" was a song about a musical instrument...
...study this portion, the scientists will employ three devices. The first, a spectrograph, was designed by James G. Baker, associate of the Harvard College Observatory. This instrument. weighing a ton, uses 16-inch mirrors and a four-by-six-inch grating with 15,000 individually ruled lines in each inch. According to Menzel, spectroscopic photographs of the outer corona have never been made with such sophisticated equipment...
...that line against one discontented stockholder. He is Charles Pillsbury, 22-year-old scion of the family that founded the flour-milling Pillsbury Co. Far from seeking control of Honeywell, young Pillsbury, a senior in Latin American studies at Yale, is trying to convert the proxy fight into an instrument of protest against the Viet...
...seemed to run in relation to a similar clock that was left behind. Pondering the strange "distance effect," they decided to compare the performance of two atomic clocks at separate, fixed locations over an extended period of time. They stationed one clock at Cape Fear, N.C.; their other instrument was a master timepiece at the Naval Research lab in Washington. For six months, they measured the time that elapsed between the tick of the master clock and the corresponding tick of the Cape Fear clock (which was transmitted to Washington by radio). Immediately after sunrise, they found, the Cape Fear...