This asteroid is named for Dr. Kenneth Linn Franklin, a member of the staff of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City, and co-discoverer in 1955 of the radio noise coming from the planet Jupiter.
His collection, The Cosmos Poems, was commissioned by the American Museum of Natural History to celebrate the opening of the new Hayden Planetarium in 2000, and he won the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry in 2002.
It is accompanied by a digital dome projection system that provides a 3-D visualization of the universe based on images generated in real time by a Silicon Graphics supercomputer.
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The Hayden Planetarium (often called "The Hayden Sphere" or "The Great Sphere") is a public planetarium, part of the Rose Center for Earth and Space of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, currently directed by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.
The Gotham Chamber Opera presented Il mondo della luna at the Hayden Planetarium in New York City in January 2010, transforming the planetarium into an opera house using the 180-degree dome and projections courtesy of NASA; the director was Diane Paulus.
To provide programming to a state without a public planetarium, the Minnesota Planetarium Society in the fall of 2006 purchased a revolutionary combination of technology providing sensational new views of the known universe as previously only displayed in large planetariums such as the Hayden Planetarium in New York City.
Although Kitt was comfortable with the job of cataloging the collection, she enrolled in classes at the Hayden Planetarium to learn more about astronomy so that she would be better at her job.
Fisher was a naturalist and later became curator of the Hayden Planetarium.
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He has held other board and director memberships to a number of corporations including AMR Corporation, Daimler AG, Federated Department Stores and Rohm and Haas, as while as board member of the American Museum of Natural History and Hayden Planetarium in New York City.
In 1997, Soter took a position at the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium, and eventually progressed to the position of research associate.