Word: menzel
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...instrument, about the size of a TV camera, is called a radiation pyrometer. It was built under the supervision of Donald H. Menzel, Director of the Harvard College Observatory, with the collaboration of Hector Ingrao, Research Engineer and Lecturer on Astronomy, who designed the device. The pyrometer is a product of the Observatory's Infrared Laboratory, established with funds from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
Donald A. Menzel, director of the Harvard College Observatory and organizer of the satellite search, said that early last week observers at Boyden noticed an object which appeared to be the satellite. At that time the National Aeronautics and Space Administration asked Harvard to determine whether the object was Syncom...
After the initial sighting, Harvard astronomers at Boyden were in hour by hour communication with NASA until confirmation was finally made Saturday. Confirmation would have come earlier, Menzel said, if it had not been for adverse weather conditions last week...
...next task is to determine the definitive orbit for Syncom I," Menzel said. "The satellite may be repairable, but that will be a job for NASA technicians...
...Menzel said that the satellite is visible only to observers in South Africa and nearby areas because it is circling the earth in an orbit synchronized with the earth's rotation. The orbit is tilted about 30 degrees to the equator which makes the satellite appear to trace a figure-eight once every 24 hours...