Table of Contents
32 relations: Ames Research Center, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Astrophysics, Atmospheric science, California, Carl Sagan, Christopher McKay, Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, Dinosaur, Dorion Sagan, Emergency department, Gerard P. Kuiper Prize, Harvard University, Impact crater, Jews, Lawrence High School (Cedarhurst, New York), List of craters on Mars: O–Z, Mariner 9, Mars, NASA, New York City, Nuclear winter, Planetary science, Princeton University, San Jose, California, Terraforming, University of California, Berkeley, Valedictorian, Venus, Viking program, Weather, Woodmere, New York.
- Deaths from spinal cancer
- LGBT astronomers
- LGBT physicists
Ames Research Center
The Ames Research Center (ARC), also known as NASA Ames, is a major NASA research center at Moffett Federal Airfield in California's Silicon Valley.
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Astronomical Society of the Pacific
The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) is an American scientific and educational organization, founded in San Francisco on February 7, 1889, immediately following the solar eclipse of January 1, 1889.
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Astrophysics
Astrophysics is a science that employs the methods and principles of physics and chemistry in the study of astronomical objects and phenomena.
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Atmospheric science
Atmospheric science is the study of the Earth's atmosphere and its various inner-working physical processes.
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California
California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.
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Carl Sagan
Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, and science communicator. James B. Pollack and Carl Sagan are American planetary scientists and scientists from New York (state).
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Christopher McKay
Dr Christopher P. McKay (born 1954) is an American planetary scientist at NASA Ames Research Center, studying planetary atmospheres, astrobiology, and terraforming. James B. Pollack and Christopher McKay are American planetary scientists.
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Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event
The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, also known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction, was the mass extinction of three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth approximately 66 million years ago.
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Dinosaur
Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.
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Dorion Sagan
Dorion Sagan (born 1959) is an American essayist, fiction writer, poet, and theorist of ecology.
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Emergency department
An emergency department (ED), also known as an accident and emergency department (A&E), emergency room (ER), emergency ward (EW) or casualty department, is a medical treatment facility specializing in emergency medicine, the acute care of patients who present without prior appointment; either by their own means or by that of an ambulance.
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Gerard P. Kuiper Prize
The Gerard P. Kuiper Prize is awarded annually by the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society for outstanding lifetime achievement in the field of planetary science.
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Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Impact crater
An impact crater is a depression in the surface of a solid astronomical body formed by the hypervelocity impact of a smaller object.
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Jews
The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.
Lawrence High School (Cedarhurst, New York)
Lawrence High School is a four-year public high school located in Cedarhurst, New York, on the South Shore of Long Island.
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List of craters on Mars: O–Z
This is a list of craters on Mars.
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Mariner 9
Mariner 9 (Mariner Mars '71 / Mariner-I) was a robotic spacecraft that contributed greatly to the exploration of Mars and was part of the NASA Mariner program.
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Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun.
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.
New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Nuclear winter
Nuclear winter is a severe and prolonged global climatic cooling effect that is hypothesized to occur after widespread firestorms following a large-scale nuclear war.
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Planetary science
Planetary science (or more rarely, planetology) is the scientific study of planets (including Earth), celestial bodies (such as moons, asteroids, comets) and planetary systems (in particular those of the Solar System) and the processes of their formation.
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Princeton University
Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.
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San Jose, California
San Jose, officially the paren), is the largest city in Northern California by both population and area. With a 2022 population of 971,233, it is the most populous city in both the Bay Area and the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland Combined Statistical Area—which in 2022 had a population of 7.5 million and 9.0 million respectively—the third-most populous city in California after Los Angeles and San Diego, and the 13th-most populous in the United States.
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Terraforming
Terraforming or terraformation ("Earth-shaping") is the hypothetical process of deliberately modifying the atmosphere, temperature, surface topography or ecology of a planet, moon, or other body to be similar to the environment of Earth to make it habitable for humans to live on.
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University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California.
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Valedictorian
Valedictorian (VD) is an academic title for the highest-performing student of a graduating class of an academic institution.
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Venus
Venus is the second planet from the Sun.
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Viking program
The Viking program consisted of a pair of identical American space probes, Viking 1 and Viking 2, which landed on Mars in 1976.
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Weather
Weather is the state of the atmosphere, describing for example the degree to which it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy.
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Woodmere, New York
Woodmere is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, New York, United States.
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See also
Deaths from spinal cancer
- Adolph Rupp
- Alejandro Betts
- Alexia González-Barros González
- Anna Abrikosova
- Billy Red Lyons
- Cepillín
- Chang Young-hee
- Conan (Javier Milei's dog)
- Dan Haggerty
- Dick Stafford
- Don Lash
- Doris Akers
- Grace Stafford
- Harry Worth (actor, born 1917)
- Hwang Jae-man
- Ian Cartwright
- Ian Frodsham
- Ilya Kormiltsev
- Ivan Turgenev
- Jack Buchanan
- Jack Kiefer (golfer)
- Jack Naylor
- Jagadish Ghimire
- James B. Pollack
- James Dean (songwriter)
- John Cobbold (businessman)
- John Marshall Harlan II
- Kelly Johnson (guitarist)
- Kim Anderzon
- Klaus Barbie
- Launceston Elliot
- Leonard Parkin
- Louise Allbritton
- Magnus Härenstam
- Marek Frąckowiak
- Masakre
- Maurice Ferré
- Nicolae Constantin Batzaria
- Ron Grainer
- Ruth Ann Musick
- Serge Chaloff
- Wendell Scott
- Will Starr
LGBT astronomers
- Frank Kameny
- JA Grier
- James B. Pollack
- Jane Rigby (astrophysicist)
- Jessica Mink
- Katie Mack (astrophysicist)
- Nergis Mavalvala
- Rebecca Oppenheimer
- Renée Hložek
- Sally Ride
- Scott Gaudi
LGBT physicists
- Allan V. Cox
- Angela Clayton
- Arlene Halko
- Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
- Clyde Wahrhaftig
- Elena Long
- James B. Pollack
- Jane Rigby (astrophysicist)
- Jennifer Burney
- Kate Stone (engineer)
- Katie Mack (astrophysicist)
- Neil Divine
- Nergis Mavalvala
- Nina Vedeneyeva
- Omer Blaes
- Rebecca Oppenheimer
- Renée Hložek
- Sally Ride
- Sarah Veatch
References
Also known as James Barney Pollack, James Pollack.