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Walter Baade

(24 Mar 1893 - 25 Jun 1960)

German-American astronomer.

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Science Quotes by Walter Baade (1)

[Asteroids are] the vermin of the skies.
[Asteroids can block objects of interest on astronomical photographs.]

— Walter Baade

Quoted in Fred L. Whipple, Earth, Moon, and Planets (1968), 43.

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