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000778294 1001_ $$aTaibi, Richard.
000778294 24510 $$aCharles Olivier and the rise of meteor science /$$cRichard Taibi.
000778294 260__ $$aCham, Switzerland :$$bSpringer,$$c2017.
000778294 300__ $$a1 online resource (518 pages)
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000778294 500__ $$aIncludes index.
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000778294 5050_ $$aPreface; Acknowledgements; Contents; About the Author; Abbreviations; Introduction; Some Background: Meteors, Comets, and Their Orbits; Olivier and Meteor Astronomy 1884-1936; 1 Virginia; Fortunes of War and Peace; Charles William Pollard; George Wythe Olivier; Katharine Roy Pollard Olivier; George Olivier's Career After the War; The Lost Cause Psychology; Virginia's Astronomer; Ormond Stone and Gravitational Astronomy; Classical Astronomy; Classical Astronomy as a Scientific Style; Some of Ormond Stone's Accomplishments; Educator and Mentor of Future Prominent Men.
000778294 5058_ $$aVirginia's Leander McCormick ObservatoryYoung Charles; Life in Charlottesville Circa 1890; First Meteor Watch; The 1899 Leonid Meteor Shower; Leonids and Other Meteor Showers; The 1899 Leonid Shower; Postmortem; Damage to Public's Trust in Professional Astronomy; Portrait of the Young Man as an Astronomer; A Research Plan Conceived in High School; Astronomical Activities in High School; Astronomical Work During Undergraduate School; Graduate School Years 1905-1908; A Second Solar Eclipse; Life on Mt. Jefferson; Director Stone's Final Years; Astronomical Work; Master of Arts in Astronomy.
000778294 5058_ $$aSojourn at Lick ObservatoryAssigned Duty: Comet Photography; Double Stars; Mira; Meteors; Summary of a Hectic Internship; Sad News; Doctor of Philosophy; Nature of an Orbit; Charting the Sky Position of a Meteor Shower Radiant Is More Difficult Than Charting a Comet's; A First Reform for Meteor Science: Criteria for a Meteor Radiant; Another Reform; 175 Orbits; His Career's Meteor Results; Why Did Meteoric Science Become a Lifelong Passion?; References; Fortunes of War and Peace; Virginia's Astronomer; Portrait of the Young Man as an Astronomer; Sojourn at Lick Observatory; 2 Enrollment Began.
000778294 5058_ $$aStarting OutAstronomy, the University, and Professor Olivier; First Academic Post; Friends at McCormick Observatory; McCormick Observatory Colleagues; In Summary; Society for Practical Astronomy; Society for Practical Astronomy and How the American Meteor Society Began; First Amateur Members of the Hybrid SPA-AMS; American Astronomical Society; Early History of the AAS; The Luminous Meteor Committee; Charles P. Olivier, the AASA, and the American Meteor Society; Chairman Olivier's Program; Setting the Agenda for Future Meteor Research; R.K. Young's Gnomonic Star Maps; Maps and Publicity.
000778294 5058_ $$aRewards from Enlisting the Assistance of AAS MembersAcademic Colleagues Contributed; Summary; American Association of Variable Star Observers; Introduction-AAVSO's Origin; Simultaneous Memberships; Olivier's Invitation to AAVSO Members; AAVSO Members Responded; Some AAVSO Members Join the AMS; Dr. Olivier Returned the Favor; The Weather Bureau; Predecessor of the Weather Bureau; Signal Corps Observers Reported Meteors; Scientific Advisor to Corps' Chief Signal Officer; Cleveland Abbe and Meteor Science at the Weather Bureau; Monthly Weather Review as a Platform for Meteor Studies.
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000778294 520__ $$aThis fascinating portrait of an amateur astronomy movement tells the story of how Charles Olivier recruited a hard-working cadre of citizen scientists to rehabilitate the study of meteors. By 1936, Olivier and members of his American Meteor Society had succeeded in disproving an erroneous idea about meteor showers. Using careful observations, they restored the public's trust in predictions about periodic showers and renewed respect for meteor astronomy among professional astronomers in the United States. Charles Olivier and his society of observers who were passionate about watching for meteors in the night sky left a major impact on the field. In addition to describing Olivier's career and describing his struggles with competitive colleagues in a hostile scientific climate, the author provides biographies of some of the scores of women and men of all ages who aided Olivier in making shower observations, from the Leonids and Perseids and others. Half of these amateur volunteers were from 13 to 25 years of age. Their work allowed Olivier and the AMS to contradict the fallacious belief in stationary and long-enduring meteor showers, bringing the theory of their origin into alignment with celestial mechanics. Thanks to Olivier and his collaborators, the study of meteors took a great leap forward in the twentieth century to earn a place as a worthy topic of study among professional astronomers.
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