1941: On 17 October 1941, John Stanley Plaskett died.
Plaskett, the most important Canadian astronomer of his day, discovered many new binary stars, including Plaskett's star, a massive binary star previously thought to be a single star. His work on the radial velocities of galactic stars allowed him to confirm the rotation of the Milky Way and to locate the most probable location of its gravitational centre. Together with J.A. Pearce, he published the first detailed analysis of the structure of the Milky Way, demonstrating that the Sun is two-thirds out from the centre of our galaxy and rotates once in 220 million years.
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