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...
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chess player Joel Plaskett (born 1974), Canadian rock musician John Stanley Plaskett (1865–1941), Canadian astronomer Joseph Plaskett (1918–2014), Canadian...
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This system is named after John Stanley Plaskett, the Canadian astronomer who discovered its binary nature in 1922. Plaskett was assisted in his observations...
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with Pan-Andromeda Archaeological Survey. The Plaskett Fellowship is named after John Stanley Plaskett and is awarded to an outstanding, recent doctoral...
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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...
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estimate for Proxima Centauri was obtained by the Canadian astronomer John Stanley Plaskett in 1925 using interferometry. The result was 207,000 miles (333...
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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...
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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☉...
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The Dominion Astrophysical Observatory telescope was designed by John Stanley Plaskett, an astronomer with the Department of the Interior in Ottawa. The...
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asteroid was named after Canadian astronomers John Stanley Plaskett and Harry Hemley Plaskett. Plaskett is a member of the Gefion family (516), a large...
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