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...Seeing a 98 per cent eclipse is like kissing your sister," said Jay M. Pasachoff, research fellow in Astrophysics, as he prepared to leave for Mexico Saturday as part of an expedition to observe the total solar eclipse on March 7. The Harvard College Observatory, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, and National Geographic Society have organized the project...
...Harvard expedition, which includes Menzel, Pasachoff, Winfield W. Salisbury, lecturer in Astronomy, and seven students and technicians, is joining several other camps in Mexico because there is a 70 per cent chance of rain where the totality will cross the United States. They are allowing a month to go through customs, pour concrete piers, and prepare their equipment...
...This expedition is particularly important because there will not be another good eclipse in this century in a well-populated area." said Pasachoff...
...additional experiment that was proposed but has since proven unfeasible was to follow the eclipse for an hour in an airplane travelling 2000 miles per hour. "Ground-based studies will give us some kinds of information that could not have been gotten from the plane," Pasachoff said...
...Eclipses are awesome sights, and though astronomers have to travel to inaccessible places to study them, they do allow us to see such different aspects of the sun that these expeditions are well worth while," Pasachoff added...