Word: pasachoff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...PASACHOFF had also proposed that NASA and Air Force use the SR-71, a high-flying reconnaissance plane, during the eclipse. Since the SR-71 can attain speeds of at least 2000 miles per hour-several hundred miles faster than the eclipse shadow at some points-it could prolong eclipse observation-time by an hour or more. The jet could also position itself anywhere within the moon's shadow...
Federal budget stringencies apparently prevented the project this time, but shortly before leaving for Mexico. Pasachoff said that an SR-71 or SST modified for eclipse work may well fly within the next few years...
...lifetime experience. It occurs only once every 360 years at any one place on the earth's surface, and the eastern U. S. can't expect another one in this century. "So we recommend that any one within comminuting distance of Nantucket or Norfolk. Virginia, make it," Pasachoff said, in a burst of enthusiasm that is typical of the spacemen who populate Observatory Hill. "Don't settle for 98 per cent...
...Pasachoff plans to report on the expedition for National Geographic, one of the group's sponsors...