Lick is a lunar impact crater that has been flooded with basaltic lava. This crater was named in memory of James Lick, a Californian philanthropist. The...

Lick or lick in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lick may refer to: Licking, the action of passing the tongue over a surface Lick (crater), a crater on...

Yerkes, and west-northwest of the Greaves–Lick crater pair. It is surrounded by a ring of satellite craters of various dimensions, the larger companions...

and rim of the crater. The crater has been burning since the 1980s. How the crater formed is unknown, but engineers ignited the crater to prevent poisonous...

center of the sloping inner walls. The crater is intruding into the northern edge of the lava-flooded crater Lick. To the northwest is Yerkes, and to the...

1871 – May 16, 1959) was an American astronomer and the director of the Lick Observatory from 1935 until 1942. Wright was born in San Francisco. After...

and lies south of the crater Picard. To the north of Tebbutt, but farther east than Picard, is the flooded Lick. This crater has a worn and damaged outer...

1902 to 1920 Curtis worked at Lick Observatory, continuing the survey of nebulae initiated by Keeler. He headed up the Lick southern station in Chile from...

contains lots of large craters more than 200 m in diameter. Their number is near to the saturation point of these craters. But craters smaller than that are...

James Lick (August 25, 1796 – October 1, 1876) was an American real estate investor, carpenter, piano builder, land baron, and patron of the sciences....

California. He took a position at Allegheny Observatory, and later went to Lick Observatory. In 1921, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States...

(April 11, 1862 – June 14, 1938) was an American astronomer, and director of Lick Observatory from 1901 to 1930. He specialized in spectroscopy. He was the...

father was a former Governor of Connecticut, Henry Dutton. Keeler worked at Lick Observatory beginning in 1888 but left after being appointed director of...

crater Lick. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 (M.P.C. 3938). Summary figures for (1951) Lick:...

the crater and the person the crater is named for. Where a crater formation has associated satellite craters, these are detailed on the main crater description...

first graduate student at Lick Observatory, but due to conflicts with his advisor, Lick director Edward S. Holden, he left Lick before finishing his Ph...

(November 12, 1891 – July 2, 1963) was an American astronomer. He worked at the Lick observatory in California, and is known for discovering several moons of...

Yerkes, and Lick to the southeast is similar. The crater Picard is located just to the east of Yerkes, and northwest of Picard are the craters Peirce and...

except for four years (1888–1892) he worked as a professional astronomer at Lick Observatory. He left court reporting in 1902, but remained in Chicago. From...

unknown amounts of other materials. Its surface features include large craters and ridges. Close-range images of Amalthea were taken in 1979 by the Voyager...

specific religious importance as they believe it is a gift from Jah. The term "lick the chalice" refers to Rasta communing with Jah. A group of practitioners...

(1891–1964) was an American astronomer and photographer. He worked at the Lick Observatory where he performed photography of the Moon. He is noted for the...

University of California from 1885 until 1888, and the first director of the Lick Observatory from 1888 until the end of 1897. He resigned as a result of internal...

249 Obituary: MNRAS 42 (1882) 148 Portrait of Ercole Dembowski from the Lick Observatory Records Digital Archive, UC Santa Cruz Library's Digital Collections...

of Paris. Lutetia has an irregular shape and is heavily cratered, with the largest impact crater reaching 45 km in diameter. The surface is geologically...

in 1963, with the collaboration of H.M. Jeffries and F.M. Greeby of the Lick Observatory, California. The catalogue later became the Washington Double...

2023-10-16. Bruce Medal page Portrait of Frederick Hanley Seares from the Lick Observatory Records Digital Archive, UC Santa Cruz Library's Digital Collections...

until his death. His cousin was Edward Singleton Holden, first director of Lick Observatory. Bond took the first photograph of a star in 1850 (Vega) and...

Chicago, Curio Collection by Hilton. Beaux Arts. French Lick Springs Hotel (1901), French Lick, at Pluto Mineral Springs. Beaux Arts. Omni Severin Hotel...

relatively flat plains in northern parts of Mars strongly contrast with the cratered terrain in southern highlands – this terrain observation is known as the...