Niel deGrasse Tyson Fred Lawrence George Ellery Hale
Whipple
Contribution the books and essays he A discoverer of six
has authored, Tyson has comets, Whipple may be
brought a number of best known for his
changes to the fields of comet research. Five
astronomy and decades ago, he first
astrophysics. suggested that comets
were "icy
conglomerates," what
the press called "dirty
snowballs." His dirty
snowball theory caught
the imagination of the
public even as it
revolutionized comet
science.
Significance One of Tyson's most Whipple may be best
notable (and known for his comet
controversial) research. Whipple also
contributions was his strongly influenced the
declaration that Pluto early era of spaceflight.
should not be Mindful of the damage
considered the ninth to spacecraft from
planet of our solar meteors, in 1946 he
system. Tyson removed invented the Meteor
Pluto from the display of Bumper, a thin outer
planets at the Hayden skin of metal. Also
Planetarium, calling it a known as the Whipple
dwarf planet. Based on Shield, this mechanism
this move, in 2006, the explodes a meteor on
International contact, preventing the
Astronomical Union spacecraft from
followed suit and receiving catastrophic
officially named Pluto a damage. Improved
dwarf planet. versions of it are still in
use today
American astronomer
known for his
development of
important astronomical
instruments, including
the Hale Telescope, a
200-inch (508-cm)
reflector at the Palomar
Observatory, near San
Diego. He is known also
for his research in solar
physics, particularly his
discovery of magnetic
fields in sunspots.
At its opening in 1897,
the Yerkes Observatory
engaged in a full
program of solar and
stellar astrophysics, but
Hale was always
planning larger
telescopes. Soon his
staff was fabricating a
60-inch (152-cm)
reflector. In 1904 Hale
established an
observing station, the
Mount Wilson Solar
Observatory, at the
summit of Wilson’s
Peak in southern
California.
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