Walter Adams

(1955 RY )
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NOW @ 8 TAU 53
FOUND @ 6 ARI 48
 
Inclination: 5.027
Eccentricity: 0.236
Period: 3.246 years
AU 2.192
Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

14.9.1955 06:00 Brooklyn 24e45 59n26 observations 1


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Named in memory of Walter S. Adams (1876–1956), whose spectroscopic studies of sunspots and stars led to the discovery, with A. Kohlschütter, of a spectroscopic method for determining stellar distances, the relative intensities of spectral lines being used to determine absolute magnitudes of both giant and main-sequence stars. Adams identified Sirius B as the first white-dwarf star known, and his measurement of its gravitational redshift was taken as confirming evidence for the general theory of relativity. He served as director of the Mount Wilson Observatory from 1923 to 1946. (M 15089) _ _.


Avastatud: 14-9-1955 Avastamiskoht: Brooklyn Avastajad: Indiana University

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