What does SAO stand for?

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

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The American Library Association developed the project in conjunction with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Space Telescope Science Institute, which specializes in designing planetarium shows, museum exhibits and Web sites including hubblesite.

Cottage Grove lands all-star exhibit

Zadunaisky also was a Senior Astronomer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and in the 1960s researched the orbits of celestial bodies at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, calculating the orbits of the first U.

Zadunaisky's math determined Halley's Comet orbit

To meet Congress' directive, NASA says it would need about $800 million for telescope development and for existing key facilities involved in the search, such as the Minor Planet Center at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge.

Rocky start; No cash for asteroids

A meteorite "wouldn't get much gas out of the earth," said Marvin, who has studied the objects since 1961 at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Massachusetts.

Officials confirm meteorite struck Peru but question whether it ...

This new planet, if you could imagine putting it in a cosmic water glass, it would float," said Robert Noyes, a research astrophysicist with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.

New planet with no core described as puffy oddball

Brian Marsden of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, raised the alarm when he discovered our planet's gravitational pull would change the speed of another asteroid.

ORBIT CLOSE; Asteroid to miss us in 2029.. but may return

NASA would award the money based on the recommendation of the Minor Planet Center of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass.

Protecting U.S. against threats from nature

Within the astronomical community, people were almost obsessed with finding this thing," says Tim Spahr of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass.

Lost asteroid reappears, bringing surprises