Word: menzel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visible disc, scientists have been able to observe only a very limited portion of the corona when the sun is not eclipsed. An extensive observation of the corona has occurred just once, during the 1970 total solar eclipse, by an expedition force led by Donald H. Menzel, former director of the Harvard Observatory...
George B. Field, director of the department of Astronomy, said the planned naming is "very appropriate because moon craters are named for great scientists, and Menzel was a great scientist...
...task force will propose the name of Donald Menzel, the former director of the Harvard College Observatory who died last year, at a full meeting of the IAU this spring, James Cornell, a spokesman for the astrophysics center, said...
...Menzel was an authority on the sun and the sun's corona, Cornell said. He wrote 26 books in his lifetime, and his last, concerning unidentified flying objects, was published posthumously, Cornell added...
...hole which may be named the Menzel Crater is located in the southeast portion of the Sea of Tranquility and is 3.7 kilometers in diameter, making it the most significant feature in the area, Cornell said...