Word: moonwatch
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...Operation Moonwatch...
...Smithsonian will therefore pay little attention to the second satellite until December, when its "Moonwatch" visual spotting stations can begin submitting visual information. Whipple says that he also expects the first satellite's rocket to fall into the earth's atmosphere at about that time...
Observatory officials were non-committal on the stage of alertness of Moonwatch teams around the country. Leon Campbell, Jr., director of the observation program, commented only that "Moonwatch teams are on the alert all the time, naturally." Another scientist revealed that the one operative satellite-tracking camera had been disassembled in Pasadena Friday and would arrive in New Mexico today...
Each of the Observatory's Moonwatch teams has about 14 members, who have been oriented to watch for a satellite coming from the northeast or southeast horizons...
...original Russian satellite is now circling in a path which favors viewing it from the far northern and far southern parts of the earth, where no Moonwatch teams are present. It cannot be seen in the Boston area...