Pickering
Pickering stands for:
- Pickering (Mars crater )
- Pickering (crater )
- Nuclear power plant in Pickering, Ontario, Canada
- Pickering series, a helium spectral series
- Pickering scale, classification of atmospheric turbulence in astronomical observations, see # Pickering Seeing Scale
Pickering is the surname of the following persons:
- Alice Pickering (1860-1939), English tennis player
- Calvin Pickering (born 1976 ), American baseball player
- Charles Pickering (1805-1878), American naturalist
- Chip Pickering ( b. 1963 ), American politician
- Craig Pickering ( born 1986 ), British track and field athlete
- Edward Charles Pickering (1846-1919), American astronomer and physicist
- Jack Pickering (1908-1977), English footballer
- Karen Pickering (born 1971 ), British swimmer
- Marc Pickering ( born 1985 ), British actor
- Nick Pickering ( b. 1963 ), English footballer
- Thomas R. Pickering ( born 1931 ), American diplomat and politician
- Timothy Pickering (1745-1829), 3rd U.S. Secretary of State
- William Pickering ( politician ) ( 1798-1873 ), American politician
- William Hayward Pickering (1910-2004), American rocket engineer of New Zealand origin
- William Henry Pickering (1858-1938), American astronomer
Pickering is the name of several places
In England:
- Pickering (North Yorkshire )
In Canada:
In the United States:
- Pickering (Iowa)
- Pickering (Louisiana )
- Pickering (Missouri )
- Pickering (New Hampshire)
- Pickering (Pennsylvania)
See also:
- Pickeringsche fraction method
- Disambiguation