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    William Henry Pickering (February 15, 1858 – January 16, 1938) was an American astronomer. Pickering constructed and established several observatories...
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    Charles Pickering (July 19, 1846 – February 3, 1919) was an American astronomer and physicist and the older brother of William Henry Pickering. Along with...
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  • English side William Pickering (footballer) (1894–1917), Scottish-born association football player, playing for English team Burnley Bill Pickering (footballer...
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    with a mean diameter of 213 km (132 mi). It was discovered by William Henry Pickering on 18 March 1899 from photographic plates that had been taken by...
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    JPL earth and deep-space satellites. William Hayward Pickering is not to be confused with William Henry Pickering, an astronomer from an earlier era. At...
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  • again. In 1898, William Henry Pickering discovered Phoebe, which is now considered the ninth moon of Saturn. Strangely, in 1905, Pickering believed that...
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  • at Arequipa, Peru, where he took the photographic plates that William Henry Pickering used to discover Saturn's moon Phoebe. He discovered many new nebulas...
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    It was named after American astronomers Edward Charles Pickering and William Henry Pickering. It lies more than 25 km northeast of the crater Horrocks...
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    specifically Tethys, Phoebe, Rhea, Hyperion, and Iapetus. Astronomer William Henry Pickering claimed to have discovered another moon of Saturn which he named...
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    Edward Charles Pickering (1905-04-28). "A Tenth Satellite of Saturn". Harvard College Observatory Bulletin (189): 1. William Henry Pickering (1905). "The...
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    Julius Schmidt was tireless in his work, it was suggested by William Henry Pickering that he perhaps devoted more of his life than any other man to...
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    with Titan, was discovered in 1848 by a British team. In 1899 William Henry Pickering discovered Phoebe, a highly irregular satellite that does not rotate...
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    basketball player Garnett Silk (born 1966 - died 1994) reggae singer William Henry Pickering, astronomer Yaadcore, DJ Manchester Local Sustainable Development...
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  • (between 1848 and 1890), Roberto Mantovani (between 1889 and 1909), William Henry Pickering (1907) and Frank Bursley Taylor (1908). The similarity of southern...
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  • series American Pickers. The series premiered on January 18, 2010, on History. As of March 27, 2024,[update] 388 episodes of American Pickers have aired....
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    Henry Pickering Bowditch (April 4, 1840 – March 13, 1911) was an American soldier, physician, physiologist, and dean of the Harvard Medical School. Following...
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  • Kuiper Belt objects Planets O, P, Q, R, S, T, and U, proposed by William Henry Pickering A Trans-Plutonian planet proposed by Tadashi Mukai and Patryk Sofia...
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    Thales filled with luminous haze. 1891–1897, American astronomer William Henry Pickering gives drawings of a probable eruption of steam from crater Schröter...
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    Planet Nine. In 1900 and 1901, Harvard College Observatory director William Henry Pickering led two searches for trans-Neptunian planets. The first was begun...
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    small natural satellites of Earth, but this was not confirmed. William Henry Pickering (1858–1938) studied the possibility of a second moon and made a...
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    Washington appointed Pickering to the position of Postmaster General in 1791. After briefly serving as Secretary of War, Pickering became the Secretary...
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    moors, overlooking the Vale of Pickering to the south. Pickering Parish Church, with its medieval wall paintings, Pickering Castle, the North Yorkshire Moors...
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  • 1746–1826) Edward Charles Pickering (United States, 1846–1919) William Henry Pickering (United States, 1858–1938) Maynard Pittendreigh (United States...
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    William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841) was an American military officer and politician who served as the ninth president of the United...
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    10, which he suggested were "something of a meteoric nature". William Henry Pickering noted that at eight stations in Canada a trembling of the house...
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    some energy source beyond what was then known was found. 1899 – William Henry Pickering discovers Saturn's moon Phoebe. 1904 – Ernest Rutherford argues...
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  • 1899), p. 13 Pickering, E. C.; A New Satellite of Saturn, Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 9, No. 4 (April 10, 1899), pp. 274–276 Pickering, E. C.; A New...
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    1960s, Pickering was active in the Democratic Party, but he switched affiliation in 1964 to the Mississippi Republican Party. At the time, Pickering said...
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    to 1992. Born in Orange, New Jersey, Pickering is the son of Hamilton Reeve Pickering and Sarah Chasteney Pickering. Raised in Rutherford, New Jersey, he...
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    named after American astronomers Edward Charles Pickering (1846–1919) and his brother William Henry Pickering (1858–1938). Pickeringia is a non-family asteroid...
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