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    Cavendish is a lunar impact crater that is located in the southwest part of the Moon, to the southwest of the larger crater Mersenius. It lies between...
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  • French Fort de Chartres Cavendish (crater), a crater on the Moon Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge Cavendish School (disambiguation)...
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    Henry is a lunar impact crater that is located to the northwest of the larger crater Cavendish, in the southeastern part of the Moon's near side. It was...
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    Mount Cavendish is located in the Port Hills, with views over Christchurch, New Zealand and Lyttelton. It is part of the crater wall of the extinct volcano...
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    impact crater that is located to the west of the Mare Humorum, in the southwestern part of the Moon. To the southwest is the crater Cavendish, and to...
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    to the north-northeast lies Cavendish. The outer rim of this crater has undergone some impact erosion, and small craters lie along the northeast, south...
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    Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (née Spencer; /dʒɔːrˈdʒeɪnə/ jor-JAY-nə; 7 June 1757 – 30 March 1806), was an English aristocrat, socialite...
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  • Thumbnail for De Gasparis (crater)
    de Gasparis is a lunar crater that is located in the southwest part of the Moon. It lies to the southeast of the crater Cavendish and south of Mersenius...
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  • the crater and the person the crater is named for. Where a crater formation has associated satellite craters, these are detailed on the main crater description...
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    National Park on Cavendish Beach Pedestrian walk Grassland Prince Edward Island National Park's coast Orientation table Dunes at Cavendish Beach Green Gables...
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    In 1976, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) approved of naming a crater on the moon after him as Ibn Firnas. In 2011, one of the bridges going over...
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    glories. He then tried to reproduce this effect on a smaller scale at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, expanding humid air within a sealed container...
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    Ruhleben internment camp. After the war, Chadwick followed Rutherford to the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, where Chadwick earned his Doctor...
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  • The following is a list of people whose names were given to craters of the Moon. The list of approved names in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature...
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    John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (category Cavendish Professors of Physics)
    elected fellow of the Royal Society on 12 June 1873. Strutt was the second Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge (following James Clerk...
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    appointed lecturer at the University of Birmingham in 1909 but moved to the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge on the invitation of J. J. Thomson in 1910.[citation...
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    ISBN 978-0312210540. Schomp, Virginia (2009). The Ancient Chinese. New York: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark. p. 89. ISBN 978-0761442165. Karlgren, Bernhard (1950). The...
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    bomb crater. All passengers, along with the driver and conductor, had escaped from the bus before it fell. The bus was hauled out of the crater after...
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    Oppenheimer wrote to Ernest Rutherford requesting permission to work at the Cavendish Laboratory, though Bridgman's letter of recommendation said that Oppenheimer's...
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    In the north-east of the desert there is a meteorite impact crater, the Wolfe Creek crater.[citation needed] "Fairy circles", which are circular patches...
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    MESSENGER found evidence of water ice on Mercury, within permanently shadowed craters not reached by sunlight. As a result of the thin atmosphere, temperatures...
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  • disturbance, designated Tycho Magnetic Anomaly One (or TMA-1), near the crater Tycho. Excavation has revealed a large black slab, precisely fashioned to...
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    Knaplock, archived from the original on 11 April 2016. Taylor is an impact crater located on the Moon, named in honor of Brook Taylor in 1935. "TAYLOR, John...
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  • Beltra crater, Mars Clogh crater, Mars Conamara Chaos Zone, Europa Dromore crater, Mars Fenagh crater, Mars Glendore crater, Mars Lismore crater, Mars...
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    Ernest Rutherford to accept Pyotr Kapitsa to Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. The lunar crater Ioffe is named after him. Ioffe Physico-Technical...
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    line Encyclopedia of Earth and Physical Sciences. New York: Marshall Cavendish. 1998. p. 1203. ISBN 9780761405511. "Minkowski". Random House Webster's...
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    World and Its Peoples: Eastern and Southern Asia, Volume 10. Marshall Cavendish. 2007. p. 1306. ISBN 978-0-7614-7631-3. Bressan, David (2017-08-11). "Early...
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    Sharp, Michael D. (2006). Popular Contemporary Writers. Vol. 10. Marshall Cavendish Reference. ISBN 978-0-7614-7601-6. Shields, Charles J. (2011). And So...
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    intellectual conversation. Blackett was impressed by the prestigious Cavendish Laboratory, and left the Navy to study mathematics and physics at Cambridge...
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    p. 304. Patricia Calvert: Vasco da Gama: So Strong a Spirit, Marshall Cavendish, 2005, pp. 75–76. Subrahmanyam, 1997, pp. 343–345. Subrahmanyam, 1997...
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