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Gates Planetarium is a 125-seat planetarium that features unidirectional, semi-reclining stadium seating, 16.4 surround-sound system featuring Ambisonic, a 3-D spatial sound system, and a perforated metal dome, 56 ft (17 m) in diameter and tilted 25 degrees. The current planetarium replaces an older, dome-style planetarium. [34]
In 2007, the Foundation paid roughly $20 million in grants, all of which went to Colorado recipients. The source of the original endowment is the Gates Rubber Company of Denver, Colorado. The Foundation is well known in Denver, for example including the Gates Planetarium at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. [4]
Fiske Planetarium at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder; Gates Planetarium at Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver; United States Air Force Academy Planetarium at United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs
Charles Cassius Gates Jr. (May 27, 1921 – August 28, 2005) was a businessman and philanthropist. His father, Charles Gates Sr., bought Colorado Tire & Leather for $3,500 in 1911. The company was renamed The Gates Rubber Company in 1919. It became world's largest non-tire rubber manufacturer. Charles Gates Jr. took over in 1961, upon the death ...
A Colorado man is facing possible bias-motivated charges for allegedly attacking a television news reporter after demanding to know whether he was a citizen, saying “This is Trump’s America ...
Chamberlin Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the University of Denver.It is located in Denver, Colorado (US) in Observatory Park.It is named for Humphrey B. Chamberlin, a Denver real estate magnate who pledged $50,000 in 1888 to build and equip the facility.
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Vanderbilt Planetarium in Centerport New York, in 1978, [15] read by singer-songwriter and Long Island resident Harry Chapin. Hansen Planetarium in Salt Lake City, Utah (in 1980 [16] and 1989 [17]) A reading of the story was played on BBC Radio 7 in 2008 and 2009. [18] Gates Planetarium in Denver, Colorado (in early 2020) [19]