Word: menzel
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Perverse Habit. Actually, solar eclipses are fairly common. As many as five can occur in a single year, although they invariably last no more than a few minutes and often frustrate astronomers by what Veteran Eclipse Watcher Donald H. Menzel of Harvard calls their "perverse habit of hitting desolate regions." Because of its favorable viewing path and timing-near the peak of the sun's eleven-year sunspot cycle-the March 7 eclipse is being eagerly awaited by astronomers...
...weather was also clear in Southern Mexico, where a Harvard-Smithsonian-National Geographic team headed by Donald H. Menzel. Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, had set up a temporary ground-based observatory for the eclipse...
...Mexican village of Miahuatlan, another group-headed by Donald H. Menzel, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy-will make ground-based observations of the sun's corona. Jay M. Pasachoff '63, research associate in Astrophysics, will photograph the corona's visible light with a special telescope...
...second team of astronomers, headed by Donald H. Menzel, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and former director of the Harvard College Observatory, leaves today for Miahautlan, Mexico, where they will set up a temporary ground-based observatory for the March 7 eclipsc...
...eclipse's deep shadow, called the umbra, will pass only over Southern Mexico, the Southeast U. S., Nantucket Island, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. But, because the weather is likely to be best in Mexico, Menzel's group, as well as thousands of other observers, will set up camp there...