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L.C. measured stellar effective temperatures and A.M.S. carried out the Bayesian analysis of distances.

“With A.M.S. we are connecting the sky to the ground,” Mr. Hankey, 43, said, referring to the fireball tracker he manages for the American Meteor Society, a nonprofit organization that monitors fireballs and meteor showers, when he’s not running a software development business.

At one stage in the recording, an officer can be heard saying, “I don’t know if he’s A.M.S. or what he is,” using an abbreviation for “altered mental status” to suggest that the man might not have been following orders because he was delirious or psychotic.

They contend, too, that closing the A.M.S. clinic would effectively end abortions after 19 weeks in Wisconsin because no other facility offers them after that point.

They maintain that driving longer distances to obtain an abortion from a provider with admitting privileges is not an undue burden and that providers at the Appleton and A.M.S.