Word: recheninstitut
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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When a new planetoid (or what may be a new planetoid) is discovered, the report is immediately sent to the Astronomisches Recheninstitut in Berlin, whence the news is broadcast to all observatories. When the nature of the new object is uncertain, Professor Armin Otto Leuschner of the University of California at Berkeley often is called upon. Professor Leuschner has developed short mathematical formulae to describe the courses of planetoids and comets. He matches the curves of the new orbits supplied him to the curves of his formulae. Last week he and other astronomers who had checked over his work were...
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