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[http://uanews.org/node/26450 Apollo Program Veterans Revisit Moon Landing] -- Whitaker is second of three interviewees<br /> <br /> | [http://uanews.org/node/26450 Apollo Program Veterans Revisit Moon Landing] -- Whitaker is second of three interviewees<br /> <br /> | ||
===Ewen Whitaker and Surveyor 3=== | ===Ewen Whitaker and Surveyor 3=== | ||
| − | Thanks to Ewen Whitaker, astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean (Apollo 12) landed their Lunar Module ''Intrepid'' very near the landingsite of Surveyor 3 at the ''Surveyor crater'' which was part of the ''Snowman'' (a cluster of small craters more-or-less snowman shaped). Ewen Whitaker discovered the pinpoint spot of Surveyor 3 on Lunar Orbiter photographs. See also the page [http://the-moon. | + | Thanks to Ewen Whitaker, astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean (Apollo 12) landed their Lunar Module ''Intrepid'' very near the landingsite of Surveyor 3 at the ''Surveyor crater'' which was part of the ''Snowman'' (a cluster of small craters more-or-less snowman shaped). Ewen Whitaker discovered the pinpoint spot of Surveyor 3 on Lunar Orbiter photographs. See also the page [http://the-moon.us/wiki/Apollo%2012%20Site Apollo 12 Site].<br /> <br /> |
===Birth & Death=== | ===Birth & Death=== | ||
22 June 1922 - 11 October 2016 (aged 94).<br /> <br /> | 22 June 1922 - 11 October 2016 (aged 94).<br /> <br /> | ||
Revision as of 20:14, 11 April 2018
Contents
Ewen Whitaker
(Lunar scientist)Table of Contents
[#Ewen Whitaker Ewen Whitaker]
[#Ewen Whitaker-Lunar Work Lunar Work]
[#Ewen Whitaker-Where & When Where & When]
[#Ewen Whitaker-Personal Information Personal Information]
[#Ewen Whitaker-Personal Information-Photo Photo]
[#Ewen Whitaker-Personal Information-Video Video]
[#Ewen Whitaker-Personal Information-Ewen Whitaker and Surveyor 3 Ewen Whitaker and Surveyor 3]
[#Ewen Whitaker-Personal Information-Birth & Death Birth & Death]
[#Ewen Whitaker-Personal Information-Education Education]
[#Ewen Whitaker-Personal Information-Current Contact Information/Websites Current Contact Information/Websites]
[#Ewen Whitaker-Publications Publications]
[#Ewen Whitaker-Additional Information Additional Information]
Lunar Work
A founding member of the [/LPL Lunar and Planetary Laboratory] at the University of Arizona, this British-born American scientist was one of the leading experts on lunar nomenclature. Formerly Director of the Lunar Section of the [/BAA BAA] and 1982 recipient of its Walter Goodacre Medal. He was best known for his popular 1999 [/Whitaker history] on lunar mapping, and he personally assigned all the current IAU-approved [/satellite%20feature letter designations] for farside craters.
Where & When
See Wikipedia entry.
Personal Information
Photo
from [/LPL Whitaker, 1985] p. 24 (see also p.26)
Video
Apollo Program Veterans Revisit Moon Landing -- Whitaker is second of three interviewees
Ewen Whitaker and Surveyor 3
Thanks to Ewen Whitaker, astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean (Apollo 12) landed their Lunar Module Intrepid very near the landingsite of Surveyor 3 at the Surveyor crater which was part of the Snowman (a cluster of small craters more-or-less snowman shaped). Ewen Whitaker discovered the pinpoint spot of Surveyor 3 on Lunar Orbiter photographs. See also the page Apollo 12 Site.
Birth & Death
22 June 1922 - 11 October 2016 (aged 94).
Education
Current Contact Information/Websites
Retired. Lives in Tuscon, Arizona.
Publications
- Coauthor: [/Photographic%20Lunar%20Atlas Photographic Lunar Atlas] (1960)
- Coauthor: [/Orthographic%20Atlas%20of%20the%20Moon Orthographic Atlas of the Moon] (1960)
- Coauthor: [/Rectified%20Lunar%20Atlas Rectified Lunar Atlas] (1963)
- Coauthor: [/Consolidated%20Lunar%20Atlas Consolidated Lunar Atlas] (1967)
- Coauthor: [/NASA%20SP-241 Atlas and Gazetteer of the Near Side of the Moon] (1971)
- Coauthor: [/NASA%20RP-1097 NASA Catalogue of Lunar Nomenclature] (1982)
- Author: [/LPL The University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory: Its founding and early years] (1985, contains considerable biographical information)
- Author: [/Whitaker Mapping and Naming the Moon] (1999)
Additional Information
- Wikipedia entry
- Ewen's [/Invalid%20Names list of Invalid Names] on NASA charts
- Photographs of Ewen Whitaker and other lunar scientists in NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, February 1969, Pages 212 and 213 (- Moon men -).
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