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Housing Units (2000): 84
Land area (2000): 0.183398 sq. miles (0.474999 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.183398 sq. miles (0.474999 sq. km)
FIPS code: 57404
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 40.450541 N, 94.841966 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 64476
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Pickering may refer to:
Pickering is a small lunar impact crater located to the northeast of the worn walled plain Hipparchus in the central region of the Moon. It lies to the northeast of the crater Horrocks, which lies within Hipparchus. To the southeast is the lava-flooded Saunder.
Pickering is a bowl-shaped formation with a circular rim that has received little wear. It has a ray system that extends for about 160 kilometers.
Pickering is a British surname.
People with Pickering as a surname:
- Adrienne Pickering (born 1981), Australian actress
- Alice Pickering (1860-1939), English tennis player
- Andrew Pickering, sociologist and science historian
- Bill Pickering (born 1901), former English professional footballer
- Calvin Pickering (born 1976), American baseball player
- Charles Pickering (naturalist) (1805–1878), physician and naturalist
- Charles W. Pickering (born 1937), Appeals Court judge
- Charlie Pickering (born 1977), Australian comedian
- Charles W. "Chip" Pickering (born 1963), the judge's son and US Representative from Mississippi
- Chris Pickering, Australian alt.country musician
- Craig Pickering (born 1986), British sprinter
- Donald Pickering (born 1933), English actor
- E. T. Pickering (1888–1961), American college baseball coach
- Edward Charles Pickering (1846–1919), astronomer
- Ernest Pickering (1928–2000), American fundamentalist leader
- Frederick Brian Pickering, British metallurgist
- Sir James Pickering, British politician of the fourteenth century
- Jack Pickering (1908–1977), English footballer (soccer) who played for Sheffield United F.C.
- John Pickering (1737–1805), American judge
- John Pickering (football manager) (born 1944), English football manager
- John E. Pickering (27 April 1918 – 19 September 1997) a pioneer in the field of radiobiology, aviation medicine and space medicine and a Colonel in the United States Air Force
- Karen Pickering (born 1971), champion British swimmer
- Larry Pickering (born 1942), Australian political cartoonist
- Liam Pickering (born 1968), Australian Rules footballer
- Lionel Pickering (1932–2006), English owner of Derby County football club
- Nick Pickering (born 1963), English footballer
- Philip D. Pickering (born 1948), Baron of Newton
- Ron Pickering (1930-1991), English athletics coach, commentator
- Spencer U. Pickering, (1858–1920) a physical chemist
- Samuel F. Pickering Jr. (born 1941), an English professor of the University of Connecticut on whom the character John Keating was based in the film Dead Poets Society
- Blessed Thomas Pickering (1621–1679), English Benedictine lay brother and martyr
- Thomas R. Pickering (born 1931), American politician
- Timothy Pickering (1745–1829), third Secretary of State of the United States, Postmaster General, and Massachusetts statesman
- William Hayward Pickering (1910–2004), Rocket Man, New Zealander and former director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- William Henry Pickering (1858–1938), astronomer
- William Pickering (governor) (1798–1873), English-born American politician
- William Pickering (fiction), director of the National Reconnaissance Office in Dan Brown's book Deception Point
- William A. Pickering (1840–1907), first Protector appointed by the British government to administer the Chinese Protectorate in colonial Singapore
- William Pickering (publisher) (1796–1854), British publisher and bookseller
- Johnny-Normand Pickering (historian & scholar) (1965-), Canadian speak-french of Quebec historian and scholar
Pickering Crater is a crater in the Phaethontis quadrangle on Mars, located at 33.1° south latitude and 132.5° west longitude. It is in diameter.
Lava flow fronts are visible within the crater, and the source of the lava is Arsia Mons. The lava has flowed around the central peak of the crater.
The crater was named after several people: Edward Charles Pickering, American astronomer (1846–1919); his brother William Henry Pickering, American astronomer (1858–1938); and Sir William Hayward Pickering (unrelated), New Zealand-American engineer (1910–2004).
Wikipickeringwest.jpg|Western edge of Pickering Crater, as seen by CTX camera (on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter). Wikipickeringlava.jpg|Lava flows on floor of Pickering Crater, as seen by CTX camera (on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter). Lava flowed in crater, and then stopped as it reached higher ground. Note: this is an enlargement of previous image. Wikipickering.jpg|Middle portion of Pickering Crater, as seen by CTX camera (on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter). Arrows indicate edges of lava flows.
Usage examples of "pickering".
Noah Webster, editor, author, lexicographer, and staunch Federalist, declared it time to stop newspaper editors from libeling those with whom they disagreed, and to his friend Timothy Pickering wrote to urge that the new law be strictly enforced.
Pickering had been chosen to fill a vacancy in the other Massachusetts senatorship, and appeared upon the scene as a most unwelcome colleague.
General Fleming Pickering, USMCR, was in a crisp, tieless shirt, with the silver star of his rank on both sides of the collar.
Lewis Pickering, who had rushed to find James in Scotland and who had helped organise the Millenary Petition: both Emmanuel men.
I wish to thank our local veterinarian, Gordon Pickering, for sharing a bit of his knowledge with me about parvovirus and its prevention and treatment.
Captain Pickering cleared his throat roughly, but Elizabeth held up her hand, wanting to settle her business with Mac Stoker on her own terms.
Pickering, Wolcott, and McHenry, like Hamilton, adamantly opposed the mission.
Pickering was not an easy man to like or get along with even under normal circumstances, as Adams knew.
The view that Adams was unsuited to prepare the nation for war and that Hamilton, by contrast, was the ideal choice for second-in-command was shared by McHenry and Secretary Pickering alike.
The speech had been written by Pickering and Wolcott, and except for the addition of one phrase, Adams had made few changes.
And with Secretary Pickering strongly of the same mind, Adams responded promptly.
LATE IN THE DAY, August 5, Adams received a dispatch from Pickering containing a letter from Talleyrand dated May 12, assuring that the American envoys would be received with all appropriate respect.
That said, Adams got to the essential point, lest Pickering have any misconceptions: I will say to you, however, that I consider this letter as the most authentic intelligence yet received in America of the successes of the coalition.
This and a letter from Pickering proposing suspension of the peace mission were all Adams needed to hear.
Particularly in his dealings with Pickering and McHenry, tension had been building for months, Adams feeling ever more isolated and certain that their first loyalty was to Hamilton, not him.