Word: moonwatch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Growing Hobby. Collision danger, to be sure, is still remote, but Roth figures that precaution is called for. Five years ago, as head of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Denver Moonwatch Team, he became interested in the problems of satellite reentry. To help scientists predict the debris' drop more precisely, he organized flight crews into the Voluntary Flight Officer Network and asked them to report all satellite sightings...
...citation particularly mentions Whipple's work with satellite-tracking programs at the University Observatory on Garden St. and 12 other stations in the United States and foreign countries. He has also organized the "Moonwatch" network, which has stations in all parts of the world...