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    The Palomar Observatory is an astronomical research observatory in the Palomar Mountains of San Diego County, California, United States. It is owned and...
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    as the location of Palomar Observatory and Hale Telescope, and known for Palomar Mountain State Park. The Luiseño name for Palomar Mountain was Paauw...
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  • The National Geographic Society – Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (NGS-POSS, or just POSS, also POSS I) was a major astronomical survey, that took almost...
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  • Geographic Society – Palomar Observatory Sky Survey, often known as just Palomar Observatory Sky Survey Palomar Distant Solar System Survey Palomar globular clusters...
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  • Palomar–Leiden survey (PLS) was a successful astronomical survey to study faint minor planets in a collaboration between the U.S Palomar Observatory and...
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    Telescope at Palomar Observatory, completed in 1948. This instrument was used in the National Geographic Society – Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS...
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    discovered by American astronomers Chad Trujillo and Michael Brown at the Palomar Observatory on 4 June 2002. Quaoar's surface contains crystalline water ice and...
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    first Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS). In total there are 15 Palomar globular clusters: Palomar 1, Palomar 2, Palomar 3, Palomar 4, Palomar 5, Palomar...
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  • American astronomers Eleanor Helin and Eugene Shoemaker at the U.S Palomar Observatory, California, in 1973. The program is responsible for the discovery...
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  • photograph taken with the 46 cm (18 in) Schmidt telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California. It was the first active comet observed to be orbiting...
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    1885 Harvard Plate Collection, the National Geographic Society – Palomar Observatory Sky Survey, and others. By about 2000, the first digital surveys...
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    George Ellery Hale (category Harvard College Observatory people)
    telescope at Mount Wilson, and the 200-inch Hale reflecting telescope at Palomar Observatory. He played a key role in the foundation of the International Union...
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    high-eccentricity orbit. Eris was discovered in January 2005 by a Palomar Observatory–based team led by Mike Brown and verified later that year. It was...
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    important and prominent of the early 20th century observatories, Mount Wilson Observatory and Palomar Observatory, were both located on mid-elevation mountaintops...
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    astronomers Megan Schwamb, Michael Brown, and David Rabinowitz at the Palomar Observatory, and the discovery was announced in January 2009. At approximately...
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    Museum of Glass. Retrieved 30 January 2015. "A History of Palomar Observatory". Palomar Observatory. California Institute of Technology. 28 May 2015. Retrieved...
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  • camera re-engineered for the 1.2-meter Samuel Oschin Telescope at Palomar Observatory. The survey camera achieved first light on 13 December 2008. PTF...
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    Hale Telescope (category Palomar Observatory)
    Telescope is a 200-inch (5.1 m), f/3.3 reflecting telescope at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, US, named after astronomer George...
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    with Hale enabled Bowen also to work at the Mount Wilson Observatory and the Palomar Observatory. Bowen gave lectures on general physics at Caltech and...
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    Observatory and Palomar Observatory. Arp became a research assistant at Indiana University in 1955, and then in 1957 became a staff member at Palomar...
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    National Geographic Society – Palomar Observatory Sky Survey, which were taken with the 48-inch Schmidt camera at Palomar Observatory. Leo I is located only...
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    during their search for bright, Pluto-sized Kuiper belt objects at Palomar Observatory. To within measurement uncertainties, 2002 MS4, 2002 AW197, and 2013...
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    Brown using images originally taken on October 21, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory. January 9 – The Comprehensive Peace Agreement is signed, ending...
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    The Palomar Testbed Interferometer (PTI) was a near infrared, long-baseline stellar interferometer located at Palomar Observatory in north San Diego County...
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  • Catalog. For the northern sky, the National Geographic Society – Palomar Observatory Sky Survey E-band (red, named after the Eastman Kodak IIIa-E emulsion...
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  • the 48-inch Schmidt telescope at Palomar Observatory and shipped the plates to the van Houtens at Leiden Observatory, who analyzed them for new asteroids...
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    Dynamical Astronomer at Goettingen, Hamburg, Mount Wilson, and Palomar Observatories". AAS/Division of Dynamical Astronomy Meeting #33. 33. Harvard Univ:...
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    astronomers Henry Roe, Michael Brown and Kristina Barkume at the Palomar Observatory in California, United States. Salacia orbits the Sun at an average...
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    Jean Mueller (category Palomar Observatory)
    U.S. Palomar Observatory in California. In 1983, she became the first woman to operate the historic Hooker telescope at Mt. Wilson Observatory and was...
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  • Zwicky Transient Facility (category Palomar Observatory)
    Telescope at Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, United States. Commissioned in 2018, it supersedes the (Intermediate) Palomar Transient...
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