William Henry Pickering
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William Henry Pickering
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William Henry Pickering was an American astronomer. Pickering constructed and established several observatories or astronomical observation stations, notably including Percival Lowell's Flagstaff Observatory. He led solar eclipse expeditions and studied craters on the Moon, and hypothesized that changes in the appearance of the crater Eratosthenes were due to "lunar insects". He spent much of the later part of his life at his private observatory in Jamaica.
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American astronomer (1858–1938)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Pickering
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2004-04-12T14:54:14Z
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2024-09-15T16:26:31Z
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