Sentences with phrase «occultation studies»
Other major meetings attended by section officers were the EUROPLANET N3 Strategic Workshop «Stellar Occultation Studies» in Paris and Meeting on Asteroids and Comets in
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Elliot crater recognises James Elliot (1943 - 2011), an MIT researcher who pioneered the use of stellar occultations to study the Solar System — leading to discoveries such as the rings of Uranus and the first detection of Pluto's thin atmosphere.
A very efficient but complex method lies in the study of stellar occultations, or the passing of these objects in front of a star (like a small eclipse).
From studying the way the starlight dimmed, Marc Buie of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, and James Elliot of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, reported 14 August that Pluto's atmospheric temperature has dropped some 20 kelvin since the last occultation in 1988.
To evaluate the reliability of radio occultation measurements and to study precipitation processes in more detail, coordinated EISCAT measurements would be useful.