Word: leuschner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a new planetoid (or what may be a new planetoid) is discovered, the report is immediately sent to the Astronomisches Recheninstitut in Berlin, whence the news is broadcast to all observatories. When the nature of the new object is uncertain, Professor Armin Otto Leuschner of the University of California at Berkeley often is called upon. Professor Leuschner has developed short mathematical formulae to describe the courses of planetoids and comets. He matches the curves of the new orbits supplied him to the curves of his formulae. Last week he and other astronomers who had checked over his work were...
...airmail letter-recently received at the observatory from Professor Leuschner of the University of California transmitted observations made of the new planet Pluto at the Yerkes Observatory of the University of Wisconsin, indicating that the ninth planet, discovered last March, is following the course predicted...
...1/30th that of Earth; Fernand Baldet, associate astronomer at the government observatory at Meudon, France; Professor Harold Lee Alden of Yale's South African Station, who sides with Dr. Brown, claims X is too small to influence Uranus; Dr. Frank Schlesinger, Director of Yale Observatory; Dr. Armin Otto Leuschner, astronomy professor at University of California. Chief among X supporters is Dr. Vesto Melvin Slipher, director of Lowell Observatory, whose brother. Astronomer Earl Carl Slipher, last fortnight gave out the following calculations...