Website Records
This accession consists of the Minor Planet Center (MPC) website as it existed on January 10, 2017. The Minor Planet Center operates at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, under the auspices of Division F of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). The Minor Planet Center is the single worldwide location for receipt and distribution …
Website Records
This accession consists of the Minor Planet Center (MPC) website as it existed on November 30, 2015. The Minor Planet Center operates at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, under the auspices of Division X2 of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). The Minor Planet Center is the single worldwide location for receipt and distribution …
Ocean Planet Exhibition Records
The Ocean Planet exhibition opened in April 1995 at the National Museum of Natural History, and is scheduled to travel in twelve cities through 1999. These records consist primarily of script drafts and reviews by Smithsonian employees, government officials, and national experts on environmental issues. The Rockefeller files contain brochures, press kits …
Website Records
This accession consists of the Minor Planet Center (MPC) website as it existed on February 26, 2013. The Minor Planet Center operates at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, under the auspices of Division III of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). The MPC is responsible for the designation of minor bodies in the solar …
Productions
This accession consists of audiovisual elements created during the production of "The Sea: A Quest for Our Future;" "Coral Reefs: New Discoveries, New Resources;" "Coral Reefs: How to Make Use of 400 Million Years of Evolution;" "Coral Reefs: Understanding Their Passage Through Time;" "Blue Planet;" "Coral Reefs and the Discovery of …
Website Records
This accession consists of "Ocean Planet," one of the Smithsonian Institution's first websites, as it existed on April 23, 2015. A preview of the website was first made available on April 20, 1995, as part of the press preview of the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) website of the same name, but did …
Correspondence
This accession consists of records created and maintained by Tom Simkin, Curator of Petrology and Volcanology, 1972-2003, and Senior Geologist and Volcanologist, 2003-2009. Many of these records document his editorship of the "Catalog of the Active Volcanoes of the World," the development and update of "This Dynamic Planet - World Map of Volcanoes …
Website Records
This accession consists of one website and three blogs maintained by Smithsonian Enterprises in association with the Air and Space Magazine. The Air and Space Magazine website, crawled June 21, 2012, includes content from the print publication of the same name and also serves as a portal for content maintained on its …
Productions
This accession consists of audiovisual records created during the production of "American Encounters," "To Coexist: Diversity and Development," "Diversity Endangered," and "The Beauty and Diversity of Our Planet." "American Encounters" is a series of eight videos about Hispanic and Native American culture in New Mexico. The first five videos were …
Voyager II Uranus Moon and Ring Images
This collection consists of optical imaging from Voyager II's January 1986 Uranus encounter. The images are negatives and prints from the Voyager imaging computer, and include ranging data and image processing information as well was the image itself. The images cover the major moons of Uranus as well as the Uranus …
