Old mountain.The irregular satellites of the outer planets are interesting, as reported in "Moonopolies" (SN: 11/22/03, p. 328), but my heart paused when I read "the medium-size Hale Telescope The Hale Telescope is the largest telescope at the Palomar Observatory. The 200-inch (5-m) telescope is named after George Ellery Hale. Hale supervised the building of the telescopes at the Mount Wilson Observatory with grants from the Carnegie Institution of Washington: the ." That historic 200-inch telescope was the largest in the world for almost 50 years. Incidentally, it's on Palomar Mountain Palomar Mountain (păl`ōmär), peak, 6,126 ft (1,867 m) high, S Calif., NE of San Diego, in Cleveland National Forest. It is the site of the Palomar Observatory, operated by the California Institute of Technology. , not Mount Palomar. JAY M. PASACHOFF, WILLIAMS COLLEGE Williams College, at Williamstown, Mass.; coeducational; chartered 1785, opened as a free school 1791, became a college 1793, named for Ephraim Williams. The Williams campus, noted for its fine old buildings, includes West College (1790), the Van Rensselaer Manor , WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS. |
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