- Leo Ring
The Leo Ring is an immense primordial cloud of hydrogen and helium gas in orbit of two galaxy galaxies within the constellation of Leo constellation Leo . Radio astronomy Radio astronomers discovered the cloud in 1983. The GALEX satellite detected ultraviolet emissions that astronomers at Johns Hopkins University and the Carnegie Institution for Science interpret to indicate star creation in newly forming dwarf galaxy dwarf galaxies in a 19 February 2009 Nature journal Nature paper. Notes Web cite web url http www.physorg.com news154186484.html title New stars from old gas surprise astronomers accessdate 18 February 2009 publisher Physorg.com Category High velocity clouds sk Prstenec Leva zh ... more details
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- XO Project
The XO Project is an international team of amateur and professional astronomers tasked with identifying extrasolar planets. They are led by Peter McCullough of the Space Telescope Science Institute . ref name spacedaily http www.spacedaily.com reports Astronomers Catch Planet By Unusual Means.html Astronomers Catch Planet By Unusual Means, Space Daily ref It is primarily funded by NASA NASA s Origins Program and the Director s Discretionary Fund of the Space Telescope Science Institute. ref name eurekalert http www.eurekalert.org pub releases 2007 05 ru xsp052507.php XO 3b Supersized planet or oasis in the brown dwarf desert ?, EurekAlert ref ref name hubblesite http hubblesite.org newscenter archive releases 2006 22 full Astronomers Use Innovative Technique to Find Extrasolar Planet, HubbleSite ref Duties Preliminary identification of possible star candidates starts at the Haleakala telescope in Hawaii by a team of professional astronomers. Once they identify a star that dims slightly from time to time, the information is forwarded to a team of amateur astronomers who then investigate for additional evidence suggesting this dimming is caused by a transiting planet. Once enough data is collected, it is forwarded to the University of Texas at Austin University of Texas McDonald Observatory to confirm the presence of a transiting planet by a second team of professional astronomers. ref name eurekalert Equipment McCullough and his team employed a relatively inexpensive telescope called an XO Telescope , made from commercial equipment, to search for extrasolar planets. This telescope consists of two 200 millimeter Telephoto lens telephoto camera lenses , and resembles binoculars in shape. It stands on the summit of the Haleakal volcano in Hawaii . ref name spacedaily Their first discovery of a Jupiter sized planet orbiting a Sun like star 600 light years from Earth in the constellation Corona Borealis XO 1b was reported May 16, 2006 http www.newswise.com articles view 520570 ... more details
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- Giuseppe Forti
Giuseppe Forti December 21, 1939 July 2, 2007 was an Italy Italian astronomer and a prolific discoverer of asteroid s. He worked at the Arcetri Observatory , in Florence Italy , and several others. He was a member of the third International Astronomical Union IAU Division Planetary Systems Sciences. ref http www.iau.org administration membership individual 1796 IAU Members Giuseppe Forti ref He died on July 2, 2007. ref it http groups.google.it group it.scienza.astronomia browse thread thread 6886b4191d2bca55 ab1d317c9765d37b?hl it ab1d317c9765d37b Obituary ref References reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Forti, Giuseppe ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1939 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH July 2, 2007 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Forti, Giuseppe Category Italian astronomers Category 20th century astronomers Category 21st century astronomers Category 2007 deaths Category 1939 births Italy astronomer stub de Giuseppe Forti fr Giuseppe Forti it Giuseppe Forti pl Giuseppe Forti pt Giuseppe Forti ru , ... more details
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- Odette Bancilhon
Odette Bancilhon was a France French astronomer . She is known for her work during the 1930s and 1940s at the Algiers Observatory , where she discovered the asteroid 1333 Cevenola . All of her publications are signed O. Bancilhon , a practice of her profession at that time. She later married her colleague Alfred Schmitt in the 1940s between 1940 and 1948 , and was known professionally as O. Schmitt Bancilhon . The asteroid 1713 Bancilhon is also named after her, which was discovered on 27 September 1951 by colleague Louis Boyer astronomer Louis Boyer . Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Bancilhon, Odette ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Astronomer DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Bancilhon, Odette Category Year of birth missing Category Year of death missing Category 20th century astronomers Category French astronomers Category Women astronomers Category Asteroid discoverers france astronomer stub eo Odette Bancilhon eu Odette Bancilhon fr Odette Bancilhon pl Odette Bancilhon ru , ... more details
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- Jean Focas
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Jean Henri Focas 20 July 1909 &ndash 3 January 1969 was a Greece Greco France French astronomer. In Greek he was known as Ioannis Focas . He worked at the Pic du Midi de Bigorre Pic du Midi Observatory, investigating the surface features of Mars using visual and photographic techniques. The lunar crater Focas lunar crater Focas and a crater on Mars were named after him. Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Focas, Jean ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 20 July 1909 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 3 January 1969 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Focas, Jean Category 1909 births Category 1969 deaths Category Greek astronomers Category French astronomers Category 20th century astronomers Category French people of Greek descent france astronomer stub Greece scientist stub Europe astronomer stub el . es Jean Focas ... more details
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- Erika Böhm-Vitense
Erika B hm Vitense born 1923 is an astronomer known for her work on Cepheid variable s and stellar atmospheres. She received her doctorate from the University of Kiel in 1951 and is a professor emeritus at the University of Washington . In 1965, she was awarded the Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy by the American Astronomical Society . She is the author of three volumes of introductory astrophysics texts first published in 1989. Bibliography Introduction to Stellar Astrophysics Cambridge University Press 1989 ISBN 0521348692 External links http www.astro.washington.edu erica UWA homepage Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Bohm Vitense, Erika ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Astronomer DATE OF BIRTH 1923 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Bohm Vitense, Erika Category 1923 births Category Living people Category German astronomers Category American astronomers Category Women astronomers Category Recipients of the Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy US astronomer stub de Erika B hm Vitense zh ... more details
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- Ray Norris (astrophysicist)
Norris, Ray Category 1953 births Category Living people Category Australian astronomers Category 20th century astronomers Category British astronomers ... Astronomers ref http www.abc.net.au rn artworks stories 2009 2689180.htm ABC Radio National The First Astronomers ref In August 2009 he featured in a two man The First Astronomers ref http www.youtube.com watch?v TKMnaZQp418 First Astronomers YouTube video of Ray Norris & Bill Harney in the First Astronomers in Darwin ref show with Wardaman elder Bill Yidumduma Harney at the Darwin Festival. ref http www.darwinfestival.org.au Theatre the first astronomers.html The First Astronomers , 2009, Darwin ... http www.abc.net.au rn artworks stories 2009 2689180.htm ABC Radio National The First Astronomers ... more details
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- Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr al?Farisi
For other individuals bearing the same name al Farisi Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr al Farisi d. 1278 1279 , an Islamic astronomer born in Aden . He is the author of al Tu fa , which includes a treatise containing important information for the history of Islamic astronomy and its connection with the religion of Islam . sfn Schmidl 2007 Notes reflist References cite encyclopedia editor Thomas Hockey et al last Schmidl first Petra G. title F ris Mu ammad ibn Ab Bakr al F ris encyclopedia The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers publisher Springer year 2007 location New York pages 357 9 url http islamsci.mcgill.ca RASI BEA Farisi BEA.htm isbn 978 0 387 31022 0 ref harv http islamsci.mcgill.ca RASI BEA Farisi BEA.pdf PDF version Persondata NAME ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1278 PLACE OF DEATH Category Astronomers of medieval Islam Category 13th century astronomers Category Scientists who worked on Qibla determination Category 1278 deaths ... more details
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- John M. Thome
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 John Macon Thome August 22, 1843 &ndash September 27, 1908 was an American Argentina Argentine astronomer . Some sources say John Macom Thome . He is sometimes known as Juan M. Thome . He was born in Palmyra, Pennsylvania and attended Lehigh University . He came to the Argentine National Observatory today Observatorio Astron mico de C rdoba in 1870, working as the senior assistant of the director Benjamin A. Gould . He succeeded Gould as director in 1885. Under his initiative, the Cordoba Durchmusterung star catalogue began to be compiled in 1892, although he did not live to see its completion. He won the Lalande Prize for astronomy from the French Academy of Sciences in 1901. Thome died in C rdoba, Argentina C rdoba and was succeeded as director of the observatory by Charles Dillon Perrine . Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Thome, John ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1843 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1908 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Thome, John Category 1843 births Category 1908 deaths Category American astronomers Category Argentine astronomers Category 19th century astronomers Category 20th century astronomers Category Lehigh University alumni Category Comet discoverers Category American emigrants to Argentina Argentina scientist stub US astronomer stub pt John Macon Thome sl John Macon Thome ... more details
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- Skalnaté Pleso
Skalnat Pleso refers to a lake in Slovakia Skalnat Pleso Observatory on the mountain. a shorthand for the Skalnate Pleso Atlas of the Heavens Atlas Coeli Skalnate Pleso 1950.0 , a popular sky atlas for amateur astronomers that was compiled at the observatory. It was reissued by Sky Publishing Corporation as the Skalnate Pleso Atlas of the Heavens . disambig ... more details
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- Reuven Ramaty
Reuven Ramaty 1937 2001 was a pioneer in the fields of solar physics , gamma ray astronomy , nuclear astrophysics , and cosmic rays . He was a HESSI Co Investigator and one of the founding members of the HESSI team. His active involvement and enthusiastic support were critical for HESSI s selection by NASA as the sixth Small Explorer SMEX mission. Following the launch on 5 February 2002, HESSI was renamed in his honor. It became the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager RHESSI , the first space mission named after a NASA scientist. External links http hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov hessi news ramaty.html NASA bio Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Ramaty, Reuven ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1937 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 2001 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Ramaty, Reuven Category Hungarian astronomers Category American astronomers Category 1937 births Category 2001 deaths Category 20th century astronomers Category Israeli astronomers US astronomer stub Hungary scientist stub Euro astronomer stub de Reuven Ramaty eo Reuven Ramaty ro Reuven Ramaty ... more details
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- Audrey C. Delsanti
class wikitable align right style margin 1em margin top 0 Asteroid s discovered 1 mpl 40314 1999 KR 16 Ref 1 May 16, 1999 colspan 2 style font size smaller note 1 with Olivier R. Hainaut O. R. Hainaut Audrey C. Delsanti born 27 August 1976 is a France French astronomer who co discovered mpl 40314 1999 KR 16 in 1999 whilst at La Silla Observatory in Chile. The Minor Planet Center erroneously lists her as A. Dalsanti . In 2004 she was awarded a NASA Postdoctoral Fellowship in astrobiology at the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. External links http www.ifa.hawaii.edu users delsanti Audrey C. Delsanti homepage Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Delsanti, Audrey C. ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Astronomer DATE OF BIRTH 27 August 1976 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Delsanti, Audrey C. Category 1976 births Category Living people Category 20th century astronomers Category 21st century astronomers Category French astronomers Category Discoverers of trans Neptunian objects Category Women astronomers Category Planetary scientists france physicist stub Euro astronomer stub eo Audrey C. Delsanti fr Audrey C. Delsanti ... more details
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- Great Debate
Great Debate may refer to Great Debate astronomy , an influential debate between the astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis The Great Debate , also called the Council of Lhasa or the Council of Samye , a decisive debate in Tibetan Buddhism from 792 to 794 Great Debates international relations disambig ko ... more details
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- Abetti
Abetti may refer to Antonio Abetti 1846 1928 , Italian astronomer. Giorgio Abetti 1882 1982 , Italian solar astronomer, son of Antonio. Abetti crater , a lunar crater named after the two astronomers. disambig Surname de Abetti it Abetti nl Abetti pt Abetti ru ... more details
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- Turku observatory
Turku observatory may refer to Vartiovuori observatory , an old observatory building in Turku, Finland Iso Heikkil Observatory , a former university observatory in Iso Heikkil district of Turku, now used by amateur astronomers Tuorla Observatory of the department of astronomy at the University of Turku in Finland Disambig ... more details
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- Paul Boltwood
Paul Boltwood is a Canada Canadian amateur astronomy amateur astronomer . He is engaged in developing hardware and software for deep sky imaging and in research of brightness variations in active galactic nuclei . He was also acknowledged for his studies of near nucleus activity in Comet Hyakutake . In 1995 he was awarded the Chant Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada . This medal is awarded, not more than once a year, to an amateur astronomer resident in Canada on the basis of the value of the work carried out in astronomy and closely allied fields of the original investigation. In 2000 he was awarded with the Amateur Achievement Award of Astronomical Society of the Pacific Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific . Asteroid 8785 Boltwood was named in his honour. References http www.astrosociety.org membership awards 00winners.html 2000 ASP Annual Award Winners br http www.rasc.ca awards chant.shtml 1995 RASC Chant Medal Winners start box succession box before Warren Offutt title Amateur Achievement Award of Astronomical Society of the Pacific years 2000 after Syuichi Nakano end box Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Boltwood, Paul ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Boltwood, Paul Category Living people Category Canadian astronomers Category Amateur astronomers Category 20th century astronomers Category 21st century astronomers Canada scientist stub astronomer stub ... more details
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- Kyle E. Smalley
Kyle E. Smalley is an United States American amateur astronomy amateur astronomer . He is engaged in the study of near Earth asteroids and developed procedures to search lost asteroids . He is a member of the Astronomical Society of Kansas City and most of his observations he has made at their Powell Observatory . He also works as a consultant at the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union . In 2003 he won Amateur Achievement Award of Astronomical Society of the Pacific Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific . The asteroid 36445 Smalley was named in his honour. References http www.astrosociety.org membership awards 03winnerspr.html 2003 ASP Award Winners Press Release s start succession box before Syuichi Nakano title Amateur Achievement Award of Astronomical Society of the Pacific years 2003 after Nik Szymanek s end Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Smalley, Kyle E. ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Smalley, Kyle E. Category Living people Category Year of birth missing living people Category American astronomers Category Amateur astronomers Category 20th century astronomers Category 21st century astronomers US astronomer stub ... more details
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- Peter Francis Williams
Peter Francis Williams is an amateur astronomy amateur astronomer from New South Wales , Australia . He specializes in early detection of declines in R Coronae Borealis type stars and the long term monitoring of several southern Mira variables and eclipse eclipsing binary stars . He was the first person who detected the naked eye naked eye Nova Velorum 1999 and seven years later he discovered the Nova Ophiuchi 2006. Both discoveries brought him the Nova Award of the American Association of Variable Star Observers . In 2007 he received the Amateur Achievement Award of Astronomical Society of the Pacific Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific . References http www.astrosociety.org membership awards bios williams.html 2007 ASP Annual Award Winners Amateur Achievement Award http www.aavso.org aavso membership nova.shtml The AAVSO The Nova Supernova Award start box succession box before Kamil Hornoch title Amateur Achievement Award of Astronomical Society of the Pacific years 2007 after Steve Mandel end box Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Williams, Peter Francis ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Australian astronomer DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Williams, Peter Francis Category Living people Category Australian astronomers Category Amateur astronomers Category 20th century astronomers Category 21st century astronomers Australia scientist stub astronomer stub ... more details
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- Helen Calvert Lines
Helen Calvert Lines died 2001 was an United States American amateur astronomy amateur astronomer . In her beginnings she was a deep sky deep sky observational astronomy observer and astrophotography astrophotographer . She was one of early members of the Phoenix Astronomical Society and a member of the American Association of Variable Star Observers . She and her husband Richard D. Lines built a small observatory in Mayer, Arizona Mayer , Arizona . In 1992 they won the Amateur Achievement Award of Astronomical Society of the Pacific Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for their work in the field of photoelectric photometry astronomy photometry of variable star s. References http www.saguaroastro.org content SACNEWS sac1992 sac.9209.pdf Saguaro Astronomy Club The Passing of Richard Lines http www.astrosociety.org membership awards pastamateur.html Amateur Achievement Award winners http pasaz.org history.html History of Phoenix Astronomical Society s start succession box before Otto Kippes title Amateur Achievement Award of Astronomical Society of the Pacific together with Richard D. Lines years 1992 after David H. Levy s end Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata Persondata NAME Lines, Helen ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION American amateur astronomer DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 2001 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Lines, Helen Category American astronomers Category Amateur astronomers Category Women astronomers Category 20th century astronomers Category Year of birth missing Category 2001 deaths US astronomer stub ... more details
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- Muslim scholarship
Muslim scholarship may refer to Islamic studies List of Islamic studies scholars List of modern day Muslim scholars Ulama , an Islamic legal scholarship See also List of Muslim historians List of Muslim philosophers List of Islamic jurists List of Muslim scientists List of Muslim astronomers disambig ... more details
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- Al Achsasi al Mouakket
Mohammad Al Achsasi Al Mouakket lang ar ALA LC Romanization ALA LC transl ar Mu ammad al Akh al Muwaqqit was an Egyptian astronomer whose calendarium and catalogue of stars, entitled Durret al Muddiah Fih al Aamal al Shamsiah Al Durrah al mu yah f al am l al shams yah, Pearls of brilliance upon the solar operations , was written at Cairo about 1650. ref Transcription and translation from E.B. Knobel, On a catalogue of stars in the Calendarium of Al Achsasi Al Mouakket, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 55 1895 429f . ref Al Achsasi was sheikh of the Grand Mosque of the University of Cairo , where his name al Mouakket reflected his position regulating the times and hours at the mosque. His name Achsasi connects him in origin to a village in the Faiyum . ref Knobel 1895 429. ref No copies of his book were known to Western astronomers or History of science historians of science until 1895 ref Knobel 1895. ref thus he did not appear in the standard French and English bibliographies and library catalogues of the 19th century. Notes Reflist astronomer stub DEFAULTSORT Achsasi al Mouakket, Al Category Medieval Arab astronomers Category Medieval Egyptian astronomers Category Astronomers of medieval Islam ... more details
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- List of astronomical societies
Astronomical Society located in Birmingham, Alabama. Central Missouri Amateur Astronomers in Fayette ... Escambia Amateur Astronomers Association , a nearly, half century old club of Northwest Florida. EAAE ... . Macarthur Astronomical Society http www.macastro.org.au a group of amateur astronomers, incorporating ... central Oklahoma Pakistan Amateur Astronomers Society http astronomer.zoomshare.com The Philippine ... www.rasnz.org.nz San Francisco Amateur Astronomers http www.sfaa astronomy.org The SETI Institute Society ... more details
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- Charles Fehrenbach (astronomer)
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Charles Fehrenbach born April 29, 1914 in Strasbourg died January 9, 2008 in N mes was a French astronomer and member of the French Academy of Sciences . He was director of the Observatoire de Haute Provence OHP until 1983. Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Fehrenbach, Charles ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1914 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH January 9, 2008 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Fehrenbach, Charles Category 1914 births Category 2008 deaths Category French astronomers Category 20th century astronomers Category Members of the French Academy of Sciences Category People from Strasbourg france astronomer stub de Charles Fehrenbach Astronom fr Charles Fehrenbach ru , ... more details
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- Reiki Kushida
BLP sources date August 2010 Nihongo Reiki Kushida Kushida Reiki is a Japanese astronomer . She co discovered the asteroid 4875 Ingalls . She has also discovered at least 14 supernova s in other galaxy galaxies . Asteroid 5239 Reiki is named after her. External links http www.nayoro star.jp photo tenmondai houmon kushida.html ja icon Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Kushida, Reiki ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Astronomer DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Kushida, Reiki Category Japanese astronomers Category Women astronomers Category Asteroid discoverers Category Living people japan astronomer stub fr Reiki Kushida ja ru , ... more details
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- Maurice du Martheray
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Maurice du Martheray 1892 &ndash April 12, 1955 was a Swiss astronomer and poet . During his over 40 years of observations he produced more than 20,000 high resolution pictures of the Sun , and more than 10,000 pictures of the Moon and the planet s. A Impact crater crater on Mars was named in his honor. Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Martheray, Maurice Du ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1892 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1955 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Martheray, Maurice Du Category 1892 births Category 1955 deaths Category Swiss astronomers Category Swiss poets Category 20th century astronomers Switzerland scientist stub Euro astronomer stub ... more details
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