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    Shapley is a lunar impact crater that lies along the southern edge of Mare Crisium. It was named after American astronomer Harlow Shapley. It was previously...
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  • Martha Alice E. Shapley, American astronomer Shapley may also refer to: the Shapley Supercluster Shapley (crater), a lunar impact crater on the southern...
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    Harlow Shapley (November 2, 1885 – October 20, 1972) was an American scientist, head of the Harvard College Observatory (1921–1952), and political activist...
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    the crater midpoint that is closest to Picard. The following craters have been renamed by the IAU. Picard G — see Tebbutt. Picard H — see Shapley. Picard...
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    additional galaxies existed outside of the Milky Way, was involved in the 1920 Shapley–Curtis Debate concerning the size and galactic structure of the universe...
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    in 1953, which he changed to "Local Supercluster" (LSC) in 1958. Harlow Shapley, in his 1959 book Of Stars and Men, suggested the term Metagalaxy. Debate...
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  • The Interstellar Medium: Dust "LAUDS ASTRONOMY ON '35 DISCOVERIES; Dr. Shapley Lists Outstanding Developments of the Year in a Talk at Cambridge". The...
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    materialise. In September 1923 Dr Paras accepted an offer from Dr Harlow Shapley, to become the Superintendent of the Harvard Observatory's Southern Station...
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  • 4000 galaxy clusters in the Abell catalogue, named for George O. Abell. Shapley Supercluster Comet names are often given for the astronomer(s) who discovered...
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    the Uranian Satellites". In Jay T. Bergstralh; Ellis D. Miner; Mildred Shapley Matthews (eds.). Uranus. University of Arizona Press. pp. 513–528. ISBN 978-0816512089...
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  • started a systematic study of meteor spectra at the suggestion of Harlow Shapley in 1929. He continued the work on meteors throughout his active scientific...
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  • years at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri (where Harlow Shapley studied under him). In 1909, Seares joined the Mount Wilson Observatory...
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    ISBN 978-3642297182. Bell, J.F.; et al. (2015). Richard P. Binzel; Tom Gehrels; Mildred Shapley Matthews (eds.). Asteroids: The Big Picture in Asteroids II. University...
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  • His thesis was "Studies of the External Galaxies", supervised by Harlow Shapley. The thesis dealt with colors and magnitudes of galaxies. In 1935 Seyfert...
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  • 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...
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    5-16 Allen, Nick. "Section 2: The Great Debate and the Great Mistake: Shapley, Hubble, Baade". The Cepheid Distance Scale: A History. Archived from the...
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    1951. The crater Hogg on the moon is co-named for him and Arthur Robert Hogg. "Canadian Astronomers who Earned the Ph.D. at Harvard in the Shapley Era" (PDF)...
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    2008. Bell, J.F.; et al. (2015). Richard P. Binzel; Tom Gehrels; Mildred Shapley Matthews (eds.). Asteroids: The Big Picture in Asteroids II. University...
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    (1988). "The Mercury atmosphere". In Vilas, Faith; Chapman, Clark R.; Shapley Matthews, Mildred (eds.). Mercury. University of Arizona Press. ISBN 978-0-8165-1085-6...
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    facing northwest and showing the crater Shapley near center at the edge of the mare, and the distal wall of the crater Greaves near the horizon Volcanism...
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    in his honour. From October 1931 to the end of July 1933, Öpik, Harlow Shapley and Samuel L. Boothroyd headed the Arizona meteor expedition, which detected...
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    2440S. doi:10.1111/maps.13592. ISSN 1086-9379. Joseph A. Burns; Mildred Shapley Matthews (November 1986). Satellites. University of Arizona Press. ISBN 978-0-8165-0983-6...
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    American Association of Variable Star Observers. In 1921, when Harlow Shapley took over as director of the observatory, Leavitt was made head of stellar...
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    superior Shapley, who regarded Priscilla as something of a protégée and was protective of her. While Bok had the greatest admiration for Shapley, it took...
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    Lucchita, B. K.; Soderblom, L. A. (1982). Morrison, David; Matthews, Mildred Shapley (eds.). Satellites of Jupiter (PDF). Space science series. Tucson, Ariz:...
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    Implications for the Plumes on Io". In Morrison, David; Matthews, Mildred Shapley (eds.). Satellites of Jupiter (PDF). Space science series. Tucson, Ariz:...
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    (Editor), Chapman (Editor), Matthews (Editor), Faith, Clark R, Mildred, Shapley (1989). Mercury. University of Arizona Press. ISBN 978-0816510856. {{cite...
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  • the Harvard College Observatory doing graduate study under Harlow Shapley. At Shapley's urging he went on to graduate studies at the Yerkes Observatory...
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    ISBN 978-0-7382-0885-5. Binzel, Richard P.; Gehrels, Tom; Matthews, Mildred Shapley, eds. (1989). Asteroids II. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. ISBN 978-0-8165-1123-5...
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    Observatory as an adjunct professor. With Pickering's successor Harlow Shapley she was given credit for her work, which was published under her own name...
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