Word: meteored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because the Corporation was unwilling to undertake the expense and its resulting implications, the other answer developed. The answer comes in three parts--the much publicized radio astronomy, solar and high altitude research, and meteor research...
...Meteor Project...
Professor Fred L. Whipple, chairman of the Department and Director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, is the leading figure in the meteor project. It has centered in the New Mexico desert, where meteor showers have been photographed from twin stations for many years...
...work. The Observatory has given up its part in the operation of the High Altitude Observatory at Climax, Colorado, but still shares the newer Sunspot, New Mexico, site of the Air Force's Sacramento Peak Observatory. The instruments include the largest coronagraph in the world, and four super-Schmidt meteor cameras there and at the companion meteor station at Mayhill, New Mexico...
...expected that work on this meteor project will have importance in the International Geophysical Year, the coordinated program of scientific studies which begins next year...