Solon Irving Bailey

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Solon Irving Bailey

Solon Irving Bailey (born  December 29, 1854 in Lisbon , New Hampshire , USA , †  June 5, 1931 near Boston , Massachusetts ) was an American astronomer who was employed by the Harvard College Observatory from 1887 .

After the observatory received the Boyden Fund from the estate of Uriah A. Boyden, Bailey played an important role in finding a location for Boyden Station in Arequipa , Peru , and was in charge of it from 1892 to 1919. He was also one of the first to conduct meteorological studies in very high altitude desert areas in Peru. In 1892 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 1923 to the National Academy of Sciences .

Boyden Station was relocated to Bloemfontein , South Africa, in 1927 because of better weather conditions , and became known as the Boyden Observatory . Bailey conducted extensive studies on variable stars in globular clusters in the southern hemisphere. He also measured with great accuracy the period of brightness fluctuations of (433) Eros during its opposition in 1903. After the death of Edward Charles Pickering , Bailey was executive director of the Harvard College Observatory from 1919 until Harlow Shapley was appointed in 1921 .

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(504) Cora , an asteroid .

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SURNAME Bailey, Solon Irving
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Lisbon , New Hampshire , USA
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 1931
Place of death near Boston , Massachusetts