eprintid: 674 rev_number: 13 eprint_status: archive userid: 205 dir: disk0/00/00/06/74 datestamp: 2010-07-27 04:03:58 lastmod: 2019-10-03 22:52:46 status_changed: 2010-07-27 04:03:57 type: journal_issue metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 0 title: Engineering and Science, Volume 55:2, Winter 1992 ispublished: pub subjects: journal_issue full_text_status: public date: 1992 date_type: published publication: Engineering and Science volume: 55 number: 2 publisher: California Institute of Technology place_of_pub: Pasadena, CA id_number: CaltechES:55.2.0 refereed: FALSE issn: 0013-7812 editors_name: Dietrich, Jane S. editors_id: Dietrich-J-S official_url: https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechES:55.2.0 rights: You are granted permission for individual, educational, research and non-commercial reproduction, distribution, display and performance of this work in any format. collection: CaltechES toc:
Deep Into That Darkness Peering
by Douglas L. Smith
The first of two ten-meter telescopes, collectively known as the W. M. Keck Observatory, is dedicated on the summit of Mauna Kea. The telescope should be open for business this year.
Exploring the Gamma Ray Sky
by Thomas A. Prince
The Gamma Ray Observatory, less than a year in orbit, is yielding new insight into such exotic astrophysical objects as supernovae, neutron stars, and black holes.
Planting SEEDS
by Winifred J. Veronda
A couple of Caltech professors (along with students, postdocs, and alumni) take hands-on science to Pasadena schoolchildren and their teachers.
Books: Five Billion Vodka Bottles to the Moon by Iosif Shklovsky
citation: Engineering and Science, Volume 55:2, Winter 1992. [Journal Issue] https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechES:55.2.0