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PHOTO: Richard Woolley in 1943 Richard van der Riet Woolley took up his duties on Mount Stromlo as Director of the then Commonwealth Solar Observatory early in December l939. ... I suggested to Woolley that we should hold a bicycle race from the Cotter Road at the foot of the mountain to the top, with the finishing line in front of the Observatory Building. ... I am gratified that, as the Tour de Stromlo Classic, it is still celebrated some 55 years later. ... Back to the Tour de Stromlo main page ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Moon . ... Space Flight . ... By admin July 28, 2011 Posted in: Human Exploration . Scott, Worden and Irwin (Image credit: NASA) . ... This was Apollo 15. ... Scott was a veteran of Gemini 8 and Apollo 9, but his crewmates were both entering space for the first time. ... Worden and Scott took desk jobs with NASA for a few years, while Irwin left the agency to become a preacher, involving himself in several quixotic quests to locate Noah?s Ark. ...

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... a total eclipse of our Sun. And tens of millions of other people across the Americas will see a partial solar eclipse. ... For Further Reading Eclipses are unique astronomical events, occurring when the Earth, Moon, and Sun are exactly aligned in space. ... Not every solar eclipse is a total eclipse! ... The darkness across the land in the path of totality during a total solar eclipse will be comparable to a night with a full moon, but slightly more eerie and wonderful. ... 2:30 p.m. EDT . ...

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• ASP's 2011 Annual Meeting

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Phased Array Feeds Astro2010 Technology Development White Paper Principle Author: J. Richard Fisher National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, VA Tel: 434-296-0202, E-mail: rfisher@nrao.edu Co-Authors: Karl F. Warnick and Brian D. Jeffs, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT German Cortes-Medellin, National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, Ithaca, NY Roger D. Norrod and Felix J. Lockman, NRAO, Green Bank, WV James M. Cordes and Riccardo Giovanelli, Cornell Univ., ... J., vol. ...

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• http://www.naic.edu/~phil/hardware/byuPhasedAr/articles/gb_20meter_test.pdf

... Table 1 lists all RV data for KELT-3 , and Figure 2 shows 20 TA B L E 1 RV O B S E RVAT I O N S O F K E LT- 3 BJD RV RV errora Source (TDB) (m s-1 ) (m s-1 ) 2455983.672916 -319 25 TRES 2455990.777987 -66 14 TRES 2456000.473809 -31 27 FIES 2456001.465355 103 20 FIES 2456002.514673 -259 20 FIES 2456003.552533 90 16 FIES 2456004.432251 0 16 FIES 2456018.656206 -324 14 TRES 2456019.709404 4 19 TRES 2456020.710562b -125 18 ... Both observations were able to resolve KELT-3 from...