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Palomar


1985 Italo Calvino, sci-fi author (T-Zero, Mr. Palomar), dies at 61

1982 Mount Palomar Observatory 1st to detect Halley's comet on 13th return

1973 Ira S. Bowen, U.S. physicist and astronomer (Mount Wilson/Palomar), dies at 74

1954 George E. Mahlberg, Astrophysicist, Mount Palomar/Mount Wilson California, 1974 - 1978

1948 200" (5.08 m) Hale telescope dedicated at Palomar Observatory

1947 200" mirror arrives at Mount Palomar

1934 5.08-m (200") Mount Palomar Observatory mirror is cast

1898 Ira S. Bowen, U.S. physicist and astronomer, Mount Wilson/Palomar


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