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    Shapley is a lunar impact crater that lies along the southern edge of Mare Crisium. It was named after American astronomer Harlow Shapley. It was previously...
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  • Martha Alice E. Shapley, American astronomer Shapley may also refer to: the Shapley Supercluster Shapley (crater), a lunar impact crater on the southern...
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    Harlow Shapley (November 2, 1885 – October 20, 1972) was an American scientist, head of the Harvard College Observatory (1921–1952), and political activist...
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    the crater midpoint that is closest to Picard. The following craters have been renamed by the IAU. Picard G — see Tebbutt. Picard H — see Shapley. Picard...
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  • the crater and the person the crater is named for. Where a crater formation has associated satellite craters, these are detailed on the main crater description...
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    additional galaxies existed outside of the Milky Way, was involved in the 1920 Shapley–Curtis Debate concerning the size and galactic structure of the universe...
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  • The Interstellar Medium: Dust "LAUDS ASTRONOMY ON '35 DISCOVERIES; Dr. Shapley Lists Outstanding Developments of the Year in a Talk at Cambridge". The...
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    in 1953, which he changed to "Local Supercluster" (LSC) in 1958. Harlow Shapley, in his 1959 book Of Stars and Men, suggested the term Metagalaxy. Debate...
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  • started a systematic study of meteor spectra at the suggestion of Harlow Shapley in 1929. He continued the work on meteors throughout his active scientific...
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    the Uranian Satellites". In Jay T. Bergstralh; Ellis D. Miner; Mildred Shapley Matthews (eds.). Uranus. University of Arizona Press. pp. 513–528. ISBN 978-0816512089...
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