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    satellites.: 34  The satellite also carried a Transit on Discoverer (TOD) payload Discoverer 16, the first of the KH-2 series, had failed to reach orbit...
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    being part of a space technology development program called Discoverer. To the public, Discoverer missions were scientific and engineering missions, the film-return...
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    on Discoverer (TOD) payload Discoverer 16, the first of the KH-2 series, had failed to reach orbit after its launch on 26 October 1960. Discoverer 17, the...
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    World Discoverer was a cruise ship designed for and built by Schichau Unterweser, Germany in 1974. During construction called BEWA Discoverer, the ship...
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    There followed eight operational Discoverer satellites, all of them partial or complete failures,: 236  though Discoverer 11, launched 15 April 1960, carried...
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    NOAAS Discoverer (R 102), originally USC&GS Discoverer (OSS 02), was an American Oceanographer-class oceanographic research vessel in service in the United...
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    Spaceflight portal CORONA (satellite) "Discoverer 1". Day, Dwayne A. (13 April 2009). "Lost over the horizon: Discoverer 1 explores Antarctica". The Space...
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    and Elizabeth Russell, and was educated at Nottingham High School. At age 17 he went to London to serve an apprenticeship as a civil engineer, but through...
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    of Liverpool, to Bradstones. In 1846, Lassell discovered Triton, the largest moon of Neptune, just 17 days after the discovery of Neptune itself by German...
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    Piazzi's Flying Star and Bessel's Star. Piazzi discovered Ceres. On 1 January 1801 Piazzi discovered a "stellar object" that moved against the background...
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    Discoverer 12, Discoverer 13 carried a newly developed gas motor for spin stabilization to replace the system that had caused the loss of Discoverer 11...
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    Discoverer 16, also known as Corona 9011, was an American optical reconnaissance satellite which was lost in a launch failure on 26 October 1960. It was...
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    was moving with the planet. "On 17 August while waiting and watching for the outer moon, the inner one was discovered. The observations of the 17th and...
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    for the discoverer of Pluto. Falk, Dan, "More than a one-hit wonder", Astronomy, February 2006, 40–45. David H. Levy Clyde Tombaugh: Discoverer of the...
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  • December 17 is the 351st day of the year (352nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 14 days remain until the end of the year. 497 BC – The first...
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    Discover Airlines, legally incorporated as EW Discover GmbH and formerly branded Eurowings Discover, is a German leisure airline headquartered in Frankfurt...
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    April 1815 – 5 November 1908) was an Irish astronomer, orbit computer and discoverer of the asteroid 9 Metis. In 1842 Graham was appointed to work at Markree...
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  • the discoverer as used by the MPC (non-diacritical version; where the abbreviated first name is written before the family name). Some discoverers have...
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  • with the Discover brand are issued by Discover Bank, formerly the Greenwood Trust Company. Discover transactions are processed through the Discover Network...
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  • The Discoverer (Norwegian: Oppdageren) is a 1999 novel by Norwegian author Jan Kjærstad. It won the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 2001. "Nordic...
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  • Solar System objects, the centaurs, discovered two moons of the planet Jupiter, and discovered or co-discovered a number of asteroids, comets and supernovae...
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    Thor-SLV2A Agena-B) First successful launch: 12 November 1960 with Discoverer 17 Last launch: 15 May 1966 with Nimbus 2 Thor-Agena D (Thor-DM21 Agena-D...
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  • licensees. At this time, Discover Bank has no plans on issuing Diners Club branded cards itself. On September 17, 2010, Discover Financial Services announced...
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    into structural formulas, the discoverer of hexamine (1859), the discoverer of formaldehyde (1859) and the discoverer of the formose reaction (1861)...
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  • 2007-11-01. "DISCover". Dark Watcher's Console History. Archived from the original on 14 October 2007. Wiley, M. (17 May 2003). "E3 2003: DISCover". IGN. Retrieved...
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    verified. The flight and loss of Discoverer 2 was the inspiration for the book and film Ice Station Zebra. "Discoverer" was the civilian designation and...
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  • successful launch was on 28 February 1959, launching Discoverer 17. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965   Success...
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    eventually given the name of Uranus. This was the first planet to be discovered since antiquity, and Herschel became famous overnight. As a result of...
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    The first USC&GS Discoverer was a survey ship that served in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1922 to 1941. Discoverer was laid down as...
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  • Corona''' satellite, based on an Agena-B. The launch of Discoverer 31 occurred at 21:00 UTC on 17 September 1961. A Thor DM-21 Agena-B rocket was used,...
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