John Stanley Plaskett CBE FRS (November 17, 1865 – October 17, 1941) was a Canadian astronomer. He worked as a machinist, and was offered a job as a mechanician...

chess player Joel Plaskett (born 1974), Canadian rock musician John Stanley Plaskett (1865–1941), Canadian astronomer Joseph Plaskett (1918–2014), Canadian...

This system is named after John Stanley Plaskett, the Canadian astronomer who discovered its binary nature in 1922. Plaskett was assisted in his observations...

with Pan-Andromeda Archaeological Survey. The Plaskett Fellowship is named after John Stanley Plaskett and is awarded to an outstanding, recent doctoral...

estimate for Proxima Centauri was obtained by the Canadian astronomer John Stanley Plaskett in 1925 using interferometry. The result was 207,000 miles (333...

abundance. An old estimate for Pollux's diameter obtained in 1925 by John Stanley Plaskett via interferometry was 13 million miles (20.9 million km, or 18...

to researchers outside of the United States only twice—once to John Stanley Plaskett, from British Columbia, and once to a group of Canadian scientists...

estimates, leading to lower radius estimates; a 1922 estimate by John Stanley Plaskett gave Rigel a diameter of 25 million miles, or approximately 28.9 R☉...

The Dominion Astrophysical Observatory telescope was designed by John Stanley Plaskett, an astronomer with the Department of the Interior in Ottawa. The...

asteroid was named after Canadian astronomers John Stanley Plaskett and Harry Hemley Plaskett. Plaskett is a member of the Gefion family (516), a large...