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    : 93  After this delay, Discoverer 9 was launched 4 Feb 1960, but it failed to reach orbit. The battery-powered Discoverer 10 was of similar configuration...
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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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    announcing the discovery of 10 Hygiea in 1849 "14 Irene". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 16 June 2016. "Minor Planet Discoverers (by number)". Minor Planet...
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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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    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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    Nebula), and discovered the variability of μ Cephei. Hind discovered Nova Ophiuchi 1848 (V841 Ophiuchi), the first object of its type discovered since 1670...
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    Discoverer Clear Leader design is a "Transocean Offshore enhanced Enterprise-class" and has four other sister ships: Discoverer Americas, Discoverer Inspiration...
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    : 236  Only a quarter load (10 pounds (4.5 kg) of film was carried on Discoverer 9 to accommodate the first Transit on Discoverer (TOD) payload,: 20  designed...
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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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    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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    November 22, 1907) was an American astronomer who is best known for having discovered the two moons of Mars, Deimos and Phobos, in 1877. He determined the orbits...
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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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    Discoverer 7 and Discoverer 8 in November 1959, flight tests were suspended for several months of intensive corrective engineering.: 93  Discoverer 9...
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    (1854) moved further out of Liverpool, to Bradstones. In 1846, Lassell discovered Triton, the largest moon of Neptune, just 17 days after the discovery...
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    Coral Discoverer is an expedition cruise ship operating in Australia and Oceania. She has previously been called Oceanic Princess and Oceanic Discoverer and...
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  • Discoverability is the degree to which something, especially a piece of content or information, can be found in a search of a file, database, or other...
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    Spaceflight portal CORONA (satellite) "Discoverer 1". https://www.thespacereview.com/article/1347/1 – 13 avril 2009 "Discoverer-1 1959-002A". NASA. 14 May 2020...
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    (8 April 1793 – 21 September 1866) was a German amateur astronomer and discoverer of minor planets. He is sometimes confused with Johann Franz Encke, another...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • quest to discover the universe and humanity's place in it. In "A Personal Note to the Reader", Boorstin writes "My hero is Man, the Discoverer. The world...
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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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    November 17, 2020. The Discoverer of Pluto plaque begins, "On this spot in 1906 stood the boyhood home of Dr. Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of the planet Pluto...
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  • Discover Financial Services is an American financial services company that owns and operates Discover Bank, an online bank that offers checking and savings...
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    cruise lines under different names, the most recent of which was Silver Discoverer. The ship has a gross tonnage of 5,218, is 338 feet long and 51 feet wide...
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    February 1959. The first successful launch was on 13 April 1959, launching Discoverer 2. It was the first two-stage rocket to place a satellite into orbit....
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  • and Mae's "book", which is actually a satellite decryption key. The apes discover old children's picture books depicting humans as the once-dominant species...
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    equipped aircraft. Discoverer 6 was preceded by Discoverer 5, launched 13 August 1959, Discoverer 4, launched 25 June 1959, and three Discoverer test flights...
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