The Lick Object of 1921 is an unidentified astronomical object that was observed from the Lick Observatory in August 1921. Although follow-up observations...
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(2016). "Pairs and Groups of Genetically Related Long-Period Comets and Probable Identity of the Mysterious Lick Object of 1921". The Astrophysical Journal...
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Comet (section Effects of comets)
2016). "Pairs and Groups of Genetically Related Long-period Comets and Proposed Identity of the Mysterious Lick Object of 1921". The Astrophysical Journal...
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C/2023 V5 (Leonard) (category Astronomical objects discovered in 2023)
2016). "Pairs and Groups of Genetically Related Long-period Comets and Proposed Identity of the Mysterious Lick Object of 1921". The Astrophysical Journal...
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(2016). "Pairs and Groups of Genetically Related Long-period Comets and Proposed Identity of the Mysterious Lick Object of 1921". The Astrophysical Journal...
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C/1988 A1 (Liller) (category Astronomical objects discovered in 1988)
2016). "Pairs and Groups of Genetically Related Long-Period Comets and Proposed Identity of the Mysterious Lick Object of 1921". The Astrophysical Journal...
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Sherburne Wesley Burnham (category 1921 deaths)
except for four years (1888–1892) he worked as a professional astronomer at Lick Observatory. He left court reporting in 1902, but remained in Chicago. From...
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August 25 (redirect from 25th of August)
I of Bavaria, King of Bavaria (died 1868) 1793 – John Neal, American writer, critic, editor, lecturer, and activist (died 1876) 1796 – James Lick, American...
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Robert Julius Trumpler (category Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences)
to Lick Observatory. In 1921, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. He was elected a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences...
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Joel Stebbins (category University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni)
Observatory at the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he remained until 1948. After 1948, Stebbins continued his research at Lick Observatory until his final...
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William Wallace Campbell (category Recipients of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society)
astronomer, and director of Lick Observatory from 1901 to 1930. He specialized in spectroscopy. He was the tenth president of the University of California from...
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Eddington experiment (category History of science)
astronomer William Wallace Campbell, director of the Lick Observatory, and Charles D. Perrine, director of the Argentine National Observatory at Cordoba...
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Planets beyond Neptune (redirect from U (trans-Neptunian object))
overestimation of Neptune's mass. After 1992, the discovery of numerous small icy objects with similar or even wider orbits than Pluto led to a debate...
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Mastodon (category Extinct animals of Canada)
command of Charles III Le Moyne (known also as "Longueil") explored the locality of "Big Bone Lick" (located in what is now the US state of Kentucky)...
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Comet Ikeya–Seki (redirect from Great Comet of 1965)
Tsutomu Seki. First observed as a faint telescopic object on 18 September 1965, the first calculations of its orbit suggested that on October 21, it would...
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Ansel Adams (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
the hobby of astronomy, visiting the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton together. His father later served as the paid secretary-treasurer of the Astronomical...
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to 1997, the title of most distant object in the universe was held by a succession of quasars. That list is available at list of quasars. In 1958, clusters...
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appropriate therapy by a process of interpretation. Some healing temples also used sacred dogs to lick the wounds of sick petitioners. The original Hippocratic...
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expeditions while at the Lick Observatory, in 1900, 1901, 1905, and 1908. "...he had become, in the opinion of the director of the Lick Observatory, W. W. Campbell...
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Circle" . Collier's New Encyclopedia. 1921. Photograph of Repsold meridian circle at the Lick Observatory from the Lick Observatory Records Digital Archive...
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Lana Turner (category 1921 births)
Julia Jean "Lana" Turner (/ˈlɑːnə/ LAH-nə; February 8, 1921 – June 29, 1995) was an American actress. Over a career spanning nearly five decades, she achieved...
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1086/101715. Lick Observatory (1894). A Brief Account of the Lick Observatory of the University of California. The University Press. p. 7–. Kanipe, Jeff...
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2020. Cowan, Rosie (13 June 2001). "Sinn Fein builds on success while SDLP licks wounds". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 May 2022. Robertson, Nic (10 February...
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main-belt asteroids, Jupiter trojans and distant objects). As of January 2022[update], the discovery of 612,011 numbered minor planets are credited to 1...
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Eureka effect (category Sources of knowledge)
utilized in insight research. The test consists of presenting participants with a set of words, such as lick, mine, and shaker. The task is to identify the...
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George B. McClellan (category Members of the Aztec Club of 1847)
and lick these troops of ours into shape half as well as he. If he can't fight himself, he excels in making others ready to fight." Northern fears of a...
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John Charles Duncan (category Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science)
observations here discussed may be brought into harmony with the Lick observations of 1921 by a period of either 0.1904838 or 0.1904722 day. Duncan, J. C. (1928)...
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Lionel Pries (category Lick-Wilmerding High School alumni)
traditions of Asia. He graduated from Lick-Wilmerding High School in San Francisco in 1916. He received his B.A. in Architecture from the University of California...
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Solar eclipse (redirect from Eclipse of the earth)
March 2015 on YouTube Solar eclipse photographs taken from the Lick Observatory from the Lick Observatory Records Digital Archive, UC Santa Cruz Library’s...
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that have received names, and explains the meanings of those names. Official naming citations of newly named small Solar System bodies are approved and...
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