Langley

Lat: 51.1°N, Long: 86.3°W, Diam: 59 km, Depth: km, Rükl: 1, [/Stratigraphy pre-Nectarian?]

Samuel Pierpont Langley (August 22, 1834 – February 27, 1906) was an American astronomer, physicist, inventor of the bolometer and pioneer of aviation. Langley was the founder of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. In 1886, Langley received the Henry [/Draper Draper] Medal from the National Academy of Sciences for his contributions to solar physics. His publication in 1890 of infrared observations at the Allegheny Observatory in Pittsburgh together with Frank Washington [/Very Very] was used by Svante [/Arrhenius Arrhenius] to make the first calculations on the greenhouse effect.
The nomenclature of this region, which the [/LPL LPL] felt was vaguely identified in the IAU’s original [/Named%20Lunar%20Formations Named Lunar Formations], was extensively modified, especially in connection with their [/Rectified%20Lunar%20Atlas Rectified Lunar Atlas] (see Arthur’s report in [/IAU%20Transactions%20XIIB IAU Transactions XIIB]). Langley is apparently a new name added for a previously unnamed feature (in the [/IAU%20nomenclature IAU system]), although Arthur says this is the same crater as the one labeled [/Regnault Regnault] by Schmidt. - JimMosher JimMosher

LPOD Articles

- In Mysterious Universe, a handbook of astronomical anomalies (1979) :

Page 92: The Ring of Light surrounding Venus (J.E.Keeler, Sidereal Messenger, 1883). Note: in this article, a certain Professor Langley is mentioned. Could this be Samuel Pierpont Langley? - DannyCaes DannyCaes Mar 30, 2015

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