Ewen A. Whitaker is a British-born astronomer who specialized in Lunar studies. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Historically Astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky while Astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena
He was an astronomer at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, becaming the director of the Lunar Section of the British Astronomical Association. The Royal Observatory Greenwich (formerly the Royal Greenwich Observatory or RGO) was commissioned in 1675 by King Charles II, with the He then emigrated to the United States and joined the staff of the Yerkes Observatory. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Yerkes Observatory which calls itself "the birthplace of modern astrophysics" is an astronomical observatory operated by the University of Chicago in In 1960 he left Yerkes, along with Gerard P. Kuiper, to join the staff of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona, eventually becoming research scientist emeritus. Gerard Peter Kuiper ( born Gerrit Pieter Kuiper ( ( December 7 1905, Harenkarspel ( Tuitjenhorn) Netherlands &ndash The Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (LPL is a Research center for Planetary science located in Tucson, Arizona. The University of Arizona (also referred to as UA, U of A, or Arizona) is a Land-grant and space-grant public institution
He worked on several NASA missions, and was successful in locating the landing site of the Surveyor 3. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program Surveyor 3 was the third lander of the Surveyor program that explored the Moon. (This was used to determine the landing site for the Apollo 12 mission. ) He has been considered by some the world's leading expert on mapping the Moon and lunar nomenclature. He was a member of the IAU's Task Group for Lunar Nomenclature. In 1999 he published a book on the history of lunar mapping and nomenclature, titled "Mapping and Naming the Moon"
He lives in Tucson, Arizona with his wife, Beryl. Tucson (ˈtuːsɒn is the seat of Pima County Arizona, United States, located 118 miles (188 km) southeast
Bibliography
- Melosh, H. J. , and Whitaker, E. A. ; "Lunar Crater Chains," Nature, 369: 713, 1994. )
- Ewen A. Whitaker, "Mapping and Naming the Moon", Cambridge University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-521-62248-4.
- G. L. Gutschewski, D. C. Kinsler & E. A. Whitaker, "Atlas and Gazetteer of the Near Side of the Moon", NASA SP-241.
- Gerald P Kuiper, Ewen A Whitaker, Robert G Strom, John W Fountain, and Stephen M Larson, "Consolidated Lunar Atlas", Lunar and Planetary Institute, 2005.
- David Clow & Ewen A. Whitaker, "A Pinpoint on the Ocean of Storms: Finding the Target for Apollo 12. " QUEST - The History of Spaceflight Quarterly. Vol. 10 No. 4, Fall 2003.
Awards and honors
- Awarded the Goodacre medal, 1982. Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar)
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