Word: plaskett
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Milky Way. An estimate 600% higher than any previous census of stars in the Milky Way (the galaxy to which Earth belongs) was given by Drs. J. S. Plaskett and J. A. Pearce of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory at Victoria, B. C. Their total was 170 billion stars. The Milky Way is apparently rotating round a centre once every 220,000,000 years. From this centre they find the solar system 30,000 light years away...
John Stanley Plaskett, director, Dominion Astronomical Observatory LL.D...
Scientists from all over the country will gather on Wednesday, March 23, to dedicate the building which has been completed as an addition to the Harvard Observatory. At a session held in the morning and beginning at 10 o'clock, H. B. Plaskett, professor of Astrophysics, and Savillian professor of Astronomy, will preside. The meeting is open to the public...
...following professors with their wives will be in the receiving line: A. N. Holcombe '06, chairman of the Department of Government, C. H. Haring '07, chairman of the Department of History, H. H. Burbank, chairman of the Department of History, Government, and Economics, H. H. Plaskett, professor of Astrophysics, H. E. Clifford '89, Dean of the Engineering School, L. J. Henderson, chairman of the Department of History of Science, Captain B. B. Wygant, chairman of the Department of Naval Science, and J. B. Conant '13, chairman of the Department of Chemistry. J. L. Coolidge '95, chairman of the Department...
...times at which the professors and their wives will receive are 4.15 o'clock, Professor and Mrs. Holcombe, Professor and Mrs. Haring; 4.40 o'clock, Professor Coolidge, Professor and Mrs. Plaskett; 5.05 o'clock, Dean and Mrs. Clifford, Professor and Mrs. Henderson, Captain and Mrs. Wygant; 5.30 o'clock, Colonel Sturgill, Professor and Mrs. Conant...