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Peter Petroff

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Peter Petroff (Bulgarian: Петър Петров) (October 21, 1919 – February 27, 2003 The New York Times: Peter D. Petroff Dies at 83.) was a Bulgarian American inventor, engineer, NASA scientist, and adventurer. [1]

18 relations: Adventure, Antarctica, Brabant Island, Brestovitsa, Plovdiv Province, Bulgaria, Bulgarian Americans, Bulgarian language, Communications satellite, Engineer, Heart rate monitor, Huntsville, Alabama, Inventor, NASA, Petroff Point, Scientist, Telemetry, United States, Watch.

Adventure

An adventure is an exciting experience that is typically a bold, sometimes risky, undertaking.

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Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent.

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Brabant Island

Brabant Island is the second largest island of the Palmer Archipelago within the British Antarctic Territory, lying between Anvers Island and Liège Island.

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Brestovitsa, Plovdiv Province

Brestovitsa (Брестовица) is a village in the Rodopi Municipality, southern Bulgaria.

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Bulgaria

Bulgaria (България, tr.), officially the Republic of Bulgaria (Република България, tr.), is a country in southeastern Europe.

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Bulgarian Americans

Bulgarian Americans are Americans of Bulgarian descent.

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Bulgarian language

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Communications satellite

A communications satellite is an artificial satellite that relays and amplifies radio telecommunications signals via a transponder; it creates a communication channel between a source transmitter and a receiver at different locations on Earth.

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Engineer

Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are people who invent, design, analyze, build, and test machines, systems, structures and materials to fulfill objectives and requirements while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation, safety, and cost.

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Heart rate monitor

A heart rate monitor is a personal monitoring device that allows one to measure one's heart rate in real time or record the heart rate for later study.

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Huntsville, Alabama

Huntsville is a city located primarily in Madison County in the Appalachian region of northern Alabama.

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Inventor

An inventor is a person who creates or discovers a new method, form, device or other useful means that becomes known as an invention.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.

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Petroff Point

Petroff Point (Петров нос, ‘Petrov Nos’ \pe-'trov 'nos\) is a rocky point on the east coast of Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica projecting northeastwards 1.2 km into Hill Bay.

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Scientist

A scientist is a person engaging in a systematic activity to acquire knowledge that describes and predicts the natural world.

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Telemetry

Telemetry is an automated communications process by which measurements and other data are collected at remote or inaccessible points and transmitted to receiving equipment for monitoring.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Watch

A watch is a timepiece intended to be carried or worn by a person.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Petroff

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