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Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Fred Lawrence Whipple ...

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Fred Lawrence Whipple ...

Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory

The Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory (FLWO), located in Amado, Arizona, is the largest field installation of the Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) outside Cambridge, Mass.
SAO Special Report

SAO Special Report

Walter Köhnlein

Walter Köhnlein. SAO Special Report No. 216 ON THE GRADIENT LINE OF THE EARTH'S ZONAL GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL Walter Kohnlein 63 ,/ Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory Cambridge, Massachusetts 0Z138 ...
Moon Arizona & the Grand Canyon

Moon Arizona & the Grand Canyon

Tim Hull

Kitt Peak National Observatory The Smithsonian Institution operates the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory atop 8,550foot Mount Hopkins, where astronomers take advantage of the dark Southern Arizona sky to scan space for very faint ...
Funding Smithsonian Scientific Research

Funding Smithsonian Scientific Research

National Research Council

The library is the product of the merging of the collections of the Harvard College Observatory Library and the SAO Library and is one of the world's pre-eminent astronomical collections. Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory, Amado, Arizona At ...
United States Code Annotated

United States Code Annotated

United States

Scholarships, this index Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory, purchase of land, appropriations, 20 § 50 nt Santa Cruz County, Smithsonian Institution, purchase of land, Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory, appropriations, 20 § 50 nt ...
Tubac

Tubac

Shaw Kinsley

(Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory.) Before a 130-foot replacement bridge was built, the Smithsonian created this footbridge, dubbed the "Amado Golden Gate." It was used for the first time on February 28, 1979. The bridge spanned 200 ...
The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America

The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America

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Arizona; withdrawing National Forest System land for the Smithsonian Institution — Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory. Alaska; revoking in part PLO No. 829, as amended Oregon; revoking Secretarial Order of July 10, 1935 California; ...
United States Code, 2012 Edition: Containing the General and ...

United States Code, 2012 Edition: Containing the General and ...

United States

406, provided: “That the Smithsonian Institution is authorized to purchase land in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, for the permanent headquarters of the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory. “SEC. 2. Effective October 1, 1984, there is authorized ...
United States Code: Containing the General and Permanent ...

United States Code: Containing the General and Permanent ...

United States

406, provided: “That the Smithsonian Institution is authorized to purchase land in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, for the permanent headquarters of the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory. “SEC. 2. Effective October 1, 1984, there is authorized ...
Sky and Ocean Joined: The US Naval Observatory 1830-2000

Sky and Ocean Joined: The US Naval Observatory 1830-2000

Steven J. Dick

A colourful history of 170 years of scientific discovery at the United States Naval Observatory.
Astrophysical Data: Planets and Stars

Astrophysical Data: Planets and Stars

Kenneth Lang

This volume of Astrophysical Data deals with Planets and Stars; a second volume, Part II, will give data for Galaxies and the Universe.
Murder in the Smithsonian: A Capital Crimes Novel

Murder in the Smithsonian: A Capital Crimes Novel

Margaret Truman

Dr. Lewis Tunney, a brilliant historian who had stumbled onto an international art scandal, was brutally murdered in front of two hundred guests at an elegant party at the Smithsonian.
Wood Preserving News

Wood Preserving News

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tated fire- retardant wood used at Smithsonian Storage space is at a premium at the Smithsonian; even the attics come into use ... Quite simply, says Michaels, wood is the most practical solution to the problem of constructing new displays and ...
Official Congressional Directory

Official Congressional Directory

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Kulick, Donald J., Employment and Training Administration, Labor. ... Kulik, Gary B., National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. .... Laird, Melvin R., John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Smithsonian Institution.
The Smithsonian's History of America in 101 Objects Deluxe

The Smithsonian's History of America in 101 Objects Deluxe

Richard Kurin

This book is the culmination of a broad effort, led by Kurin and involving all the Smithsonian’s museums and more than a hundred of its top scholars and curators, to select a set of objects that could collectively represent the American ...
Reflections of a Culture Broker: A View from the Smithsonian

Reflections of a Culture Broker: A View from the Smithsonian

Richard Kurin

47–69. 9. Earl Nyholm, “The Use of Birchbark by the Ojibwa Indians,” in Festival of American Folklife Program Book (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1981), pp. 6–9. 10. See Thomas Vennum, “American Indian Culture and Access to ...
The Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada ...

The Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada ...

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New York, A'.F. — Columbia College Observatory ; "Evening Star Map"; • N' ewcomb Library, Coll. of City of N.Y. ; Public Library, Astor Branch. Northficld, Minn. — Carleton College Observatory; "Popular Astronomy". Oberlin, Ohio ...
Smithsonian Institution Secretary, Charles Doolittle Walcott

Smithsonian Institution Secretary, Charles Doolittle Walcott

Ellis Leon Yochelson

"Accompanied by illustrations and photographs from private collections and the Smithsonian Archives, this straightforward biography of Charles Doolittle Walcott offers readers a look at the life and career of an important but little-known ...

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