Whipple, Fred Lawrence (1906-)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4087. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Astronomer, born in Red Oak, IA, became director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. While still a graduate student he helped compute the orbit of newly discovered Pluto. Using a new method of photography from two separated wide-angle cameras, he triangulated on meteor tracks and determined their orbits. He deduced that nearly all are made up of bits from comets. He proposed the `dirty ...

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