Word: smithsonian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Audubon's Birds of America is a book which everyone has heard of and which everyone wants to see at least once in his lifetime." Thus, in 1888, wrote George Brown Goode, assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, about the stunning and still famous masterwork produced by John James Audubon (1785-1851). So it seems only fitting that the Smithsonian is offering everyone a chance to see the so-called double-elephant folio edition of The Birds of America, which Audubon and a team of British printers, engravers and colorists laboriously assembled between 1827 and 1838. This massive volume...
...ever and showing a short but prominent tail. And there it will sit, not for a measly week like Hyakutake, but for more than a month. "I predict that this could be the most viewed comet in all of human history," says Daniel Green, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "This will be one of the brightest objects in the sky. It'll be hard for the average person...
Hale checked his sky atlas, then logged on to the computer at the quaintly named Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams, located at the Harvard-Smithsonian Observatory. Maybe this would turn out to be a known object. It didn't. "Now I felt I had a pretty live suspect," he says. He fired off an E-mail message to Daniel Green and Brian Marsden, who run the Bureau for the International Astronomical Union, reporting a possible new comet. A few hours later he looked again, and the object had moved. It was a comet for sure...
...Volcanoes are enthralling," says Smithsonian Institution volcanologist Richard Fiske. "You can't stop them. You can't control them. All society can do is learn to coexist with them...
Since the class covers time measurement into the modern era, students will also have an opportunity to visit the laboratory of Robert F. Vessot, associate of the Harvard College Observatory. Vessot works at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics--one of the leaders in building atomic clocks, Landes says...