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Kilston sent a telegram describing his discovery to the Smithsonian, which acts to the international clearing house for heavenly breakthroughs...
...sometimes," he continued, "we have to examine the body for as much as fifteen minutes to tell." And on rare occasions, the Smithsonian will itself be fooled, passing on a false discovery as a true...
About four or five comets are discovered in an average year, according to Brian Marsden of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory: approximately half by amateurs who make a habit of searching for them. "This has been an unusually slow year," he said...
...Orange Free State -- what one South African described as the Mississippi of South Africa. In 1955 a cooperative was formed in which Harvard shared the Observatory with Northern Ireland, Ireland, Sweden, West Germany, and Belgium. On July 1, 1966 Harvard transfered its administrative and logistic responsibilities to the Smithsonian Astro-Physical Observatory which is closely linked with the Harvard Observatory...
Carlton W. Tillinghaft, assistant director for administration at the Smithsonian Observatory, said that advice on racial issues came from the State Department. "If they asked us to pull out, we would, but they have not instructed us to put pressure on South African apartheid," Tillinghaft said...