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  • which would mark the Pawnee lodge as an observatory: #that a Pawnee ... The earth lodge served as an astronomical observatory and as the priests ...
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  • located about 50,000ndash;100,000 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun ... of Comets, part I] European Southern Observatory, 2003. ...
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  • Greek name Helios. Its astrological and astronomical symbol is a circle with ... ] Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 221 (1986): 1023 ...
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  • The International Astronomical Union (IAU) defines "planet" ... Planets (WGESP) of the International Astronomical Union.] Retrieved May 6, 2015. ...
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  • orbits. Currently, the International Astronomical Union considers objects ... is picked out with a CCD in the Spanish Observatory of Roque de los Muchachos ...
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  • a major center of mathematical and astronomical research. ... and hence has proven well-suited for astronomical studies. ...
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  • These devices most probably sacrificed astronomical accuracy for crowd-pleasing ... Max Wolf, former director of the Baden Observatory in Heidelberg, on a new ...
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  • * [http://www.oa.uj.edu.pl/index.en.html Astronomical Observatory of the Jagiellonian University] Category:History 220694135 ...
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  • experiment at the Pierre Auger Observatory is underway to try to ... At a January 12, 2005, conference of the American Astronomical Society ...
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  • conjunction of the sun and moon (the astronomical new moon) was calculated ... beginning at midnight is the day of the astronomical new moon. (Note, however ...
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  • * Gaocheng Astronomical Observatory, the oldest astronomical observatory in China. * Mount Jigong, on the southern border. * Mount Song, near ...
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  • on his scientific career at the Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago ... *Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1953) *National Medal ...
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  • motion in the twilight sky. The astronomical symbol for Mercury (displayed ... seen by John Bevis at the Royal Greenwich Observatory. R. W. Sinnott ...
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  • distance on August 22, 1924 was 0.37284 astronomical units (AU) (compared to ... orientalist Percival Lowell founded an observatory that had 12- and 18-inch ...
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  • rings carried out by James Keeler of Lick Observatory. ===Physical ... so in his 1847 publication Results of Astronomical Observations made at the ...
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  • a museum of art and archaeology, and an astronomical observatory. ==Culture== Until 1869, all buildings within the city proper were of wood or ...
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  • Edward C. Pickering at Harvard College Observatory had developed a method ... quot; and "dwarf" stars,] The Observatory 36: 324–329. Retrieved ...
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  • seventeen enormous folios," at the Observatory of Paris. It was begun ... allowed all calculations needed for astronomical navigation to be reduced ...
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  • Based on his open mind and painstaking analysis of astronomical data ... " At age nine, he observed another astronomical event, the lunar eclipse ...
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  • :This article is about the astronomical object. [[Image:Pleiades large ... used today, and they invented numerous astronomical instruments which could ...
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