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William Henry Pickering (February 15, 1858 – January 16, 1938) was an American astronomer. Pickering constructed and established several observatories or astronomical observation stations, notably including Percival Lowell's Flagstaff Observatory.
2 de abr. de 2024 · William Henry Pickering (born Feb. 15, 1858, Boston—died Jan. 17, 1938, Mandeville, Jam.) was a U.S. astronomer who discovered Phoebe, the ninth satellite of Saturn. In 1891 Pickering joined his brother Edward in establishing the Boyden station of the Harvard Observatory at Arequipa, Peru.
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William Henry Pickering (1858-1935), astrónomo estadounidense, hermano menor del también astrónomo Edward Charles Pickering (1846-1919).
William Henry Pickering (15 de febrero de 1858 – 16 de enero de 1938) fue un astrónomo estadounidense. Pickering construyó y estableció varios observatorios o estaciones de observación astronómica, entre los que destaca el Observatorio Flagstaff de Percival Lowell.
William Henry Pickering construyó varios observatorios, dirigió numerosas expediciones por todo el mundo para observar eclipses solares totales, descubrió el noveno satélite (Phoebe) de Saturno y además estudió los cráteres lunares planteando que los cambios en la apariencia del cráter Eratóstenes se debían a "insectos lunares".
26 de abr. de 2007 · William Pickering: From down under to high above. 26/04/2007 2862 views 6 likes. ESA / About Us / ESA history. William Pickering was behind some of the finest moments in the early exploration of the Solar System, from the first US satellite to orbit Earth to missions to the Moon, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and beyond.
23 de may. de 2018 · Pickering was a pioneer in dry-plate celestial photography, and the Harvard photographic sky survey was undertaken at his suggestion. He took some of the earliest photographs of Mars (1888), and the lunar photographs he obtained in Jamaica (1900) were long the finest and most complete.
