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...scares me," said Jack Hills, an astronomer at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. "It really does." He and the rest of the world had good reason to be worried. Astronomer Brian Marsden at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics had just announced that a newly discovered asteroid a mile wide was headed for Earth and might pass as close as 30,000 miles in the year 2028. "The chance of an actual collision is small," Marsden reported, "but not entirely out of the question...
...Harvard-Smithsonian Astronomical Observatory] is the world's largest group of astronomers and astrophysicists, not just in size, but with an outstanding array of things going on out here," Professor of Astronomy Jonathan E. Grindlay says...
After obtaining his Ph.D., Radano worked at the Smithsonian Institution for three years, then went on to teach at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he is now a tenured associate professor in the Afro-American Studies and in the School of Music...
...editors worked with manual typewriters, carbon paper and No. 2 pencils. As we were walking through the newsroom, Grove stopped to peer into the wire room, a small area overstuffed with fax and teletype machines, and exclaimed, "This is absolutely incredible equipment! In fact, it should be in the Smithsonian." That and subsequent conversations with Andy over the years taught me to appreciate his wit and his wisdom and sensitized me to the power of the chip and its role in our lives...
...Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics will sponsor a free program on astronomy, featuring a nontechnical lecture, a short film and telescopic observing. Phillips Auditorium for CfA, 60 Garden Street...