Word: solarized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cooker" developed by Secretary Charles Greeley Abbot of the Smithsonian Institution, famed authority on solar radiation. Dr. Abbot's best previous sun cooker, with which he and Mrs. Abbot once cooked all their food for three months, attained temperatures as high as 365° F. The new one, which has double vacuum jackets on the oil pipes where the sun's rays are focussed, gets...
...part of a broad plan to determine the nature of the galactic system in which the solar system is a minute part, Dr. Eric M. Lindsay and Dr. Freeman D. Miller '30, of the Harvard Observatory, have been counting stars at the rate of 5,000 each day and have now completed almost half their task of classifying the estimated 10,000,000 stars of the thirteenth magnitude and above. The whole project is under the direction of Bartholomeus J. Bok, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, and Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy...
Asteroids are members of the solar system, revolving about the sun in orbits between Mars and Saturn and hence visible the greater part of the time. Comets on the other hand, follow ellipse-shaped orbits of great size, entering the solar system only at intervals of years. The fact that Hidalgo has not been seen since 1921 tends to show that it is a comet, but further observations will be necessary before this conclusion can be definitely established...
...Died? Frank Evans Seagrave, 74, astronomer who accurately predicted the reappearance of Halley's comet in 1910, the time and duration of the 1932 total solar eclipse; after an operation for intestinal cancer; in Providence. R. I. In 1882 he made important astronomical news by photographing the transit of Venus...
...cases had been observed, he estimated that 20% to 30% of all eye sufferers may be affected by a condition which he named aniseikonia. Said Professor Ames to the Manhattan doctors: "I feel that before aniseikonia was discovered we were somewhat in the position of the astronomers studying the solar system before all the important planets had been located. The effects of the unknown ones could be felt but they were still unknown, and the relationships could not be worked out. They are now worked out, as it is hoped that some day aniseikonia's will...