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Lunar Occultations, Grazing

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Introduction

The topic of Grazing Occultations has been discussed in various publications over the extensive time these events have been observed. The first effort to predict a grazing occultation occurred in Great Britain in the 1930s, but this effort was not successful due to clouds. There were marginally successful efforts by Dr. John A. O’keefe in his secret work for the US Government during the 1950s. The first widely known successfully predicted and observed Grazing Occultation was of Lambda Geminorum observed from his observatory at Kessel-Lo, Belgium, by Jean Meeus. David Dunham, as a student in California, was the first to predict a Grazing Occultation of the star 5 Tauri that an observer, Leonard Kalish, was able to travel to the predicted Limit Line and observe. In Dr. David Dunham’s educational travels through universities such as Yale and Texas, he would spend part of his time in the 1960s at the United States Naval Observatory (USNO), and it was at the USNO that he...

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Wilds, R.P. (2023). Lunar Occultations, Grazing. In: Cudnik, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Lunar Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14541-9_220

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