Luyten, Willem Jacob (1899-1994)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3826. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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American astronomer, worked at the University of Minnesota, determining proper motions of more than 120 000 stars, as a means of finding nearby or high-velocity stars, and determining their distances. He repeated the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey, building an automated computerized plate-measuring machine to compare it with the earlier survey, and thus determined the proper motions of 400 000 mo...

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