28 Result(s)

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Free thinking

Out in the Cold: Academic Boycotts and the Isolation of South Africa.

A. J. Meadows in Nature (1995)

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The IRAS fast-moving object search

The Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) has provided an all-sky survey at wavelengths between 12 and 100 µm. The satellite also detected fast-moving objects in the Solar System, including new comets and Ear...

J. K. Davies, S. F. Green, B. C. Stewart, A. J. Meadows, H. H. Aumann in Nature (1984)

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Ultraviolet spectra of asteroids

Spectra over the range 2,100–3,200 Å have been obtained for the three largest asteroids—Ceres, Pallas and Vesta—using the International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) satellite¹. These represent the first detailed UV...

P. S. Butterworth, A. J. Meadows, G. E. Hunt, V. Moore, D. M. Willis in Nature (1980)

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What use is astronomy?

A. J. Meadows in Nature (1978)

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Surface temperature of early Earth

CHANGES in the surface temperature of the Earth throughout its history are important for understanding both the geological development of the Earth's surface and the origin and development of life on Earth. Th...

ANN HENDERSON-SELLERS, A. J. MEADOWS in Nature (1977)

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A hundred years of controversy over sunspots and weather

After a century of accumulating correlations on the activity of sunspots and atmospheric phenomena around the Earth, we still have no clear idea what exactly the relationships are or what they mean. Much of wh...

A. J. Meadows in Nature (1975)

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Airy and after

The Royal Greenwich Observatory of today is a vastly different institution from that founded in the seventeenth century. An original staff of two housed in one small building has risen to some 250 housed in a ...

A. J. Meadows in Nature (1975)

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The transit of Venus in 1874

Observations of the 1874 transit of Venus seem to have been based on a misguided belief that nineteenth century techniques were superior to those of the previous century. Here A. J. Meadows explains, with the ...

A. J. Meadows in Nature (1974)

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Einstein

Einstein: The Life and Times.

A. J. MEADOWS in Nature (1973)

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Coffee Table Hale

The Legacy of George Ellery Hale: Evolution of Astronomy and Scientific Institutions in Pictures and Documents.

A. J. MEADOWS in Nature (1972)