Author: American Meteor SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteors
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Report of the American Meteor Society for 1923 and 1924
Author: American Meteor SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteors
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Report of the American Meteor Society for 1925 ...
Author: Report of the American Meteor Society
Author: Charles Pollard OlivierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 3
Book Description
Reports of the American Meteor Society
Author: Charles Olivier and the Rise of Meteor Science
Author: Richard TaibiPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319445189
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
This fascinating portrait of an amateur astronomy movement tells the story of how Charles Olivier recruited a hard-working cadre of citizen scientists to rehabilitate the study of meteors. By 1936, Olivier and members of his American Meteor Society had succeeded in disproving an erroneous idea about meteor showers. Using careful observations, they restored the public’s trust in predictions about periodic showers and renewed respect for meteor astronomy among professional astronomers in the United States. Charles Olivier and his society of observers who were passionate about watching for meteors in the night sky left a major impact on the field. In addition to describing Olivier’s career and describing his struggles with competitive colleagues in a hostile scientific climate, the author provides biographies of some of the scores of women and men of all ages who aided Olivier in making shower observations, from the Leonids and Perseids and others. Half of these amateur volunteers were from 13 to 25 years of age. Their work allowed Olivier and the AMS to contradict the fallacious belief in stationary and long-enduring meteor showers, bringing the theory of their origin into alignment with celestial mechanics. Thanks to Olivier and his collaborators, the study of meteors took a great leap forward in the twentieth century to earn a place as a worthy topic of study among professional astronomers.
Reports of the American Meteor Society. [By] Charles P. Olivier. (Reprinted from "Meteorics".).
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Author: Popular Astronomy
Author: University of Virginia Record
Author: Monthly Abstract Bulletin from the Kodak Research Laboratories
Author: Eastman Kodak Company. Kodak Research LaboratoriesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description