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Alice Grace Cook (1887 - 1958), known as Grace Cook or A. Grace Cook was a British astronomer. She joined the British Astronomical Association in 1911, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1915, part of the first group of women elected as fellows. She was renowned for her work observing meteors, and also observed naked-eye phenomena including the zodiacal light and aurorae. Cook also searched for comets and Milky Way novae.〔 Cook was among the discoverers of V603 Aquilae, a nova that occurred in 1918.〔 This work earned her the Edward J. Pickering Fellowship from the Maria Mitchell Association in 1920–1921.〔 With Fiammetta Wilson, Cook headed the British Astronomical Association's Meteor Section from 1921–1923. With Joseph Hardcastle, Cook worked to identify and describe 785 New General Catalogue objects on a series of photographic plates taken by John Franklin-Adams. Cook lived in Stowmarket, Suffolk. She died in 1958 and was remembered by her colleagues as a skilled and dedicated astronomer.〔 ==Further reading== * ‘Death of Alice Grace Cook’, Journal of the British Astronomical Association, vol. 68, p 302. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「A. Grace Cook」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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