TO SEE SUN’S ECLIPSE
BRITISH SCIENCE MISSION FOR MALAY AND SIAM British Official JVireless RUGBY, Wednesday. Four British scientists have been appointed by the joint permanent committee of the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society to take observations in the Malay Peninsula and Siam during the total eclipse of the sun on May 9, 1929. The scientists will sail from England in February. One party will establish its headquarters at Alor, in the Malay State of Kedah. The other will establish its base near Patanl, in Siam. Attempts will be made during the eclipse to measure the temperatures and the pressures of the gases round the sun, also to take important spectroscopic observations. It is anticipated that the Einstein theory of relativity will be reaffirmed by what is known as the astronomical test.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 489, 19 October 1928, Page 9
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134TO SEE SUN’S ECLIPSE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 489, 19 October 1928, Page 9
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