Alternate Definitions for International Geophysical Year - IGY

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Term: International Geophysical Year - IGY
Definition: Period (1 July 1957 - 31 December 1958), fixed by the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, during which an extensive programme of geophysical observations was carried out over a worldwide network of stations.
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