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Search for extraterrestrials with your desktop computer by Gerry Brown Related Links History of SETIRadio AstronomyArecibo ObservatoryEncyclopedia: SETIA teraflop is a measure of a computer's…Vanderbilt University
(Encyclopedia) Vanderbilt University, at Nashville, Tenn.; coeducational; chartered 1872 as Central Univ. of Methodist Episcopal Church, founded and renamed 1873, opened 1875 through a gift from…Coffin, James Henry
(Encyclopedia) Coffin, James Henry, 1806–73, American mathematician and meteorologist, was professor of mathematics and physics, Lafayette College, 1846–73. In an observatory which he built on Mt.…Arecibo
(Encyclopedia) Arecibo Arecibo ärəsēˈbō [key], city, N Puerto Rico, a port on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Rio Grande de Arecibo. It has rum distilleries and is…Castel Gandolfo
(Encyclopedia) Castel Gandolfo Castel Gandolfo kästĕlˈ gändôlˈfō [key], town, in…Tompion, Thomas
(Encyclopedia) Tompion, Thomas, 1639?–1713, English clockmaker. When the Royal Observatory at Greenwich was established in 1676, Tompion was chosen to make two clocks, to be wound only once a year,…Ben Nevis
(Encyclopedia) Ben NevisBen Nevisnēˈvĭs, nĕvˈĭs [key], peak, 4,411 ft (1,345 m) high, Highland, W Scotland, overlooking Glen Nevis; highest peak of Great Britain. Ben Nevis is the remnant of a…Secchi, Pietro Angelo
(Encyclopedia) Secchi, Pietro AngeloSecchi, Pietro Angelopyĕˈtrō änˈjālō sĕkˈkē [key], 1818–78, Italian astronomer, a Jesuit priest. He was director of the observatory of the Gregorian Univ., Rome,…Qeqertarsuaq
(Encyclopedia) QeqertarsuaqQeqertarsuaqkĕkˌĕrtärs&oomacr;ˈäk [key], formerly GodhavnGodhavngôᵺˈhoun [key], town (1996 pop. 1,095), Qeqertarsuaq dist., W Greenland, on Disko Island; founded in…Langley, Samuel Pierpont
(Encyclopedia) Langley, Samuel Pierpont, 1834–1906, American scientist, b. Roxbury, Mass., received only a high school education but continued his studies in science in Boston libraries. He became,…Trending
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