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George Observatory 1989 Brazos Bend State Park, near Houston, Texas, US Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (GMRT) 1995 Pune, Maharashtra, India Gifford Observatory: 1912 Wellington, New Zealand Girawali Observatory: 2006 Pune, Maharashtra, India Glen D. Riley Observatory: 1973 Naperville, Illinois, US Godlee Observatory: 1902 Manchester, England, UK
The Houston Museum of Natural Science (abbreviated as HMNS) is a natural history museum located on the northern border of Hermann Park in Houston, Texas, United States.The museum was established in 1909 by the Houston Museum and Scientific Society, an organization whose goals were to provide a free institution for the people of Houston focusing on education and science.
The Illinois state legislature voted in 1895 to fund a new teaching observatory at the University of Illinois, providing $15,000 for construction. The site chosen was a grass knoll between Matthews Avenue and Burrill Avenue, just north of the Morrow Plots , a National Historic Landmark that is the nation's oldest experimental field.
Largest and oldest Planetarium and Astronomical Observatory in Poland. [41] The 3rd largest in Eastern Europe (east of Germany), after Pulkovo Observatory in Saint Petersburg, Russia and Belgrade Observatory in Belgrade, Serbia: University of Illinois Observatory: Urbana, Illinois, USA: Used for instruction and pleasure: 30 cm (12") 4.57 m (15 ...
Earth will get a second moon for about two months this year when a small asteroid begins to orbit our planet. The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, revolving ...
The Kenwood Astrophysical Observatory was the personal observatory of George Ellery Hale, constructed by his father, William E. Hale, in 1890 at the family home in the Kenwood section of Chicago. [1] It was here that the spectroheliograph , which Hale had invented while attending MIT , was first put to practical use; and it was here that Hale ...
23712 Willpatrick (provisional designation 1998 AA) is a stony Phocaea asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 5 kilometers in diameter.. The asteroid was discovered on 1 January 1998, by American astronomers Elizabeth and William G. Dillon at George Observatory in Needville, Texas, who later named it after their son William Patrick Dillon.
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