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99 relations: Academy of Achievement, Alamogordo Daily News, Animas, New Mexico, Apparent magnitude, Associated Press, Asteroid, Astrograph, Astronomer, Astronomical unit, Astronomy (magazine), Auriga (constellation), Aviation Week, Blink comparator, Burdett, Kansas, Classical planet, Clayton Kershaw, David H. Levy, Donald Howard Menzel, Donald Keyhoe, Dwarf planet, Ecliptic, England, Eris (dwarf planet), Extraterrestrial hypothesis, Extraterrestrial life, Flagstaff, Arizona, Flying saucer, Galactic coordinate system, Galaxy cluster, Giovanni Schiaparelli, Green fireballs, Hail, Harold F. Levison, International Astronomical Union, J. Allen Hynek, Jackson-Gwilt Medal, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Jupiter, Kalmbach Publishing, Kuiper belt, Las Cruces, New Mexico, Lens (optics), Lincoln LaPaz, List of minor planets: 2001–3000, List of minor planets: 3001–4000, List of minor planets: 4001–5000, List of minor planets: 5001–6000, List of minor planets: 6001–7000, List of minor planets: 7001–8000, Los Angeles Dodgers, ..., Lowell Observatory, Mars, Milky Way, Mirror, National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena, New Horizons, New Mexico State University, Northern Arizona University, Orbital inclination, Patrick Moore, Percival Lowell, Pitcher, Planet, Planets beyond Neptune, Pluto, Pluto (mythology), Popular Mechanics, Project Blue Book, Questia Online Library, Rittenhouse Medal, Robert S. Richardson, Roman mythology, Royal Astronomical Society, Satellite, Space station, Star cluster, Streator, Illinois, Supercluster, Taurus (constellation), Telescope, The New York Times, The Pentagon, Tombaugh (crater), Tombaugh Cliffs, Tombaugh Regio, Trans-Neptunian object, Unidentified flying object, Unitarian Universalism, University of Kansas, USA Today, Variable star, Venetia Burney, White Sands Missile Range, William Henry Pickering, World War II, 15760 Albion, 1604 Tombaugh, 2839 Annette, 3754 Kathleen. Expand index (49 more) »
Academy of Achievement
The Academy of Achievement, officially known as the American Academy of Achievement, was founded in 1961 by Sports Illustrated and LIFE magazine photographer Brian Reynolds to bring together accomplished people from diverse fields in order to network and to encourage the next generation of young leaders.
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Alamogordo Daily News
Alamogordo Daily News, founded in 1898, is a daily newspaper published in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
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Animas, New Mexico
Animas is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in west-central Hidalgo County, New Mexico, United States, in the southwestern corner of the state.
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Apparent magnitude
The apparent magnitude of a celestial object is a number that is a measure of its brightness as seen by an observer on Earth.
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Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
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Asteroid
Asteroids are minor planets, especially those of the inner Solar System.
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Astrograph
An astrograph (astrographic camera) is a telescope designed for the sole purpose of astrophotography.
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Astronomer
An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who concentrates their studies on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth.
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Astronomical unit
The astronomical unit (symbol: au, ua, or AU) is a unit of length, roughly the distance from Earth to the Sun.
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Astronomy (magazine)
Astronomy is a monthly American magazine about astronomy.
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Auriga (constellation)
Auriga is one of the 88 modern constellations; it was among the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd-century astronomer Ptolemy.
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Aviation Week
The Aviation Week Network is a New-York based B2B publishing and event production company.
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Blink comparator
A blink comparator was a viewing apparatus used by astronomers to find differences between two photographs of the night sky.
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Burdett, Kansas
Burdett is a city in Pawnee County, Kansas, United States.
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Classical planet
In classical antiquity, the seven classical planets are the seven non-fixed astronomical objects in the sky visible to the naked eye: Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Mercury, the Sun, and the Moon.
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Clayton Kershaw
Clayton Edward Kershaw (born March 19, 1988) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB).
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David H. Levy
David H. Levy (born May 22, 1948) is a Canadian astronomer, science writer and discoverer of comets and minor planets, who co-discovered Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 in 1993, which collided with the planet Jupiter in 1994.
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Donald Howard Menzel
Donald Howard Menzel (April 11, 1901 – December 14, 1976) was one of the first theoretical astronomers and astrophysicists in the United States.
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Donald Keyhoe
Donald Edward Keyhoe (June 20, 1897 – November 29, 1988) was an American Marine Corps naval aviator, Donald E(dward) Keyhoe.
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Dwarf planet
A dwarf planet is a planetary-mass object that is neither a planet nor a natural satellite.
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Ecliptic
The ecliptic is the circular path on the celestial sphere that the Sun follows over the course of a year; it is the basis of the ecliptic coordinate system.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Eris (dwarf planet)
Eris (minor-planet designation 136199 Eris) is the most massive and second-largest (by volume) dwarf planet in the known Solar System.
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Extraterrestrial hypothesis
The extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH) proposes that some unidentified flying objects (UFOs) are best explained as being physical spacecraft occupied by extraterrestrial life or non-human aliens from other planets visiting Earth.
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Extraterrestrial life
Extraterrestrial life,Where "extraterrestrial" is derived from the Latin extra ("beyond", "not of") and terrestris ("of Earth", "belonging to Earth").
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Flagstaff, Arizona
Flagstaff is a city in and the county seat of Coconino County in northern Arizona, in the southwestern United States.
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Flying saucer
A flying saucer (also referred to as "a flying disc") is a descriptive term for a supposed type of flying craft having a disc or saucer-shaped body, commonly used generically to refer to an anomalous flying object.
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Galactic coordinate system
The galactic coordinate system is a celestial coordinate system in spherical coordinates, with the Sun as its center, the primary direction aligned with the approximate center of the Milky Way galaxy, and the fundamental plane parallel to an approximation of the galactic plane but offset to its north.
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Galaxy cluster
A galaxy cluster, or cluster of galaxies, is a structure that consists of anywhere from hundreds to thousands of galaxies that are bound together by gravity with typical masses ranging from 1014–1015 solar masses.
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Giovanni Schiaparelli
Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli FRS(For) HFRSE (14 March 1835 Savigliano – 4 July 1910 Milan) was an Italian astronomer and science historian.
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Green fireballs
Green fireballs are a type of unidentified flying object which have been sighted in the sky since the late 1940s.
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Hail
Hail is a form of solid precipitation.
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Harold F. Levison
Harold F. (Hal) Levison is a planetary scientist specializing in planetary dynamics.
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International Astronomical Union
The International Astronomical Union (IAU; Union astronomique internationale, UAI) is an international association of professional astronomers, at the PhD level and beyond, active in professional research and education in astronomy.
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J. Allen Hynek
Josef Allen Hynek (May 1, 1910 – April 27, 1986) was an American astronomer, professor, and ufologist.
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Jackson-Gwilt Medal
The Jackson-Gwilt Medal is an award that has been issued by the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) since 1897.
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a federally funded research and development center and NASA field center in Pasadena, California, United States, with large portions of the campus in La Cañada Flintridge, California.
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Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.
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Kalmbach Publishing
Kalmbach Publishing Co. is an American publisher of books and magazines, many of them railroad-related, located in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
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Kuiper belt
The Kuiper belt, occasionally called the Edgeworth–Kuiper belt, is a circumstellar disc in the outer Solar System, extending from the orbit of Neptune (at 30 AU) to approximately 50 AU from the Sun.
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Las Cruces, New Mexico
Las Cruces, also known as "The City of the Crosses", is the seat of Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States.
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Lens (optics)
A lens is a transmissive optical device that focuses or disperses a light beam by means of refraction.
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Lincoln LaPaz
Lincoln LaPaz (February 12, 1897 – October 19, 1985) was an American astronomer from the University of New Mexico and a pioneer in the study of meteors.
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List of minor planets: 2001–3000
#FA8072 | 2078 Nanking || 1975 AD || January 12, 1975 || Nanking || Purple Mountain Obs.
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List of minor planets: 3001–4000
#d6d6d6 | 3089 Oujianquan || || December 3, 1981 || Nanking || Purple Mountain Obs.
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List of minor planets: 4001–5000
#C2FFFF | 4063 Euforbo || || February 1, 1989 || Bologna || San Vittore Obs.
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List of minor planets: 5001–6000
#fefefe | 5390 Huichiming || || December 19, 1981 || Nanking || Purple Mountain Obs.
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List of minor planets: 6001–7000
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List of minor planets: 7001–8000
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Los Angeles Dodgers
The Los Angeles Dodgers are an American professional baseball team based in Los Angeles, California.
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Lowell Observatory
Lowell Observatory is an astronomical observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, United States.
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Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System after Mercury.
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Milky Way
The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System.
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Mirror
A mirror is an object that reflects light in such a way that, for incident light in some range of wavelengths, the reflected light preserves many or most of the detailed physical characteristics of the original light, called specular reflection.
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National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena
The National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) was an unidentified flying object (UFO) research group most active in the United States from the 1950s to the 1980s.
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New Horizons
New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe that was launched as a part of NASA's New Frontiers program.
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New Mexico State University
New Mexico State University (NMSU or NM State) is a public, land-grant, research university in Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States, and the flagship campus of NMSU System.
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Northern Arizona University
Northern Arizona University (NAU) is a public higher-research university with a main campus at the base of the San Francisco Peaks in Flagstaff, Arizona, statewide campuses, and NAU Online.
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Orbital inclination
Orbital inclination measures the tilt of an object's orbit around a celestial body.
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Patrick Moore
Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore (4 March 19239 December 2012) was an English amateur astronomer who attained prominent status in that field as a writer, researcher, radio commentator and television presenter.
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Percival Lowell
Percival Lawrence Lowell (March 13, 1855 – November 12, 1916) was an American businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars.
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Pitcher
In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk.
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Planet
A planet is an astronomical body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and has cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals.
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Planets beyond Neptune
Following the discovery of the planet Neptune in 1846, there was considerable speculation that another planet might exist beyond its orbit.
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Pluto
Pluto (minor planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond Neptune.
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Pluto (mythology)
Pluto (Latin: Plūtō; Πλούτων) was the ruler of the underworld in classical mythology.
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Popular Mechanics
Popular Mechanics is a classic magazine of popular science and technology.
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Project Blue Book
Project Blue Book was one of a series of systematic studies of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) conducted by the United States Air Force.
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Questia Online Library
Questia is an online commercial digital library of books and articles that has an academic orientation, with a particular emphasis on books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences.
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Rittenhouse Medal
The Rittenhouse Medal is awarded by the Rittenhouse Astronomical Society for outstanding achievement in the science of Astronomy.
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Robert S. Richardson
Robert Shirley Richardson (April 22, 1902 – November 12, 1981) was an American astronomer, born in Kokomo, Indiana.
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Roman mythology
Roman mythology is the body of traditional stories pertaining to ancient Rome's legendary origins and religious system, as represented in the literature and visual arts of the Romans.
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Royal Astronomical Society
The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) is a learned society that began as the Astronomical Society of London in 1820 to support astronomical research (mainly carried on at the time by 'gentleman astronomers' rather than professionals).
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Satellite
In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an artificial object which has been intentionally placed into orbit.
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Space station
A space station, also known as an orbital station or an orbital space station, is a spacecraft capable of supporting crewmembers, which is designed to remain in space (most commonly as an artificial satellite in low Earth orbit) for an extended period of time and for other spacecraft to dock.
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Star cluster
Star clusters are groups of stars.
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Streator, Illinois
Streator is a city in LaSalle and Livingston counties in the U.S. state of Illinois.
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Supercluster
A supercluster is a large group of smaller galaxy clusters or galaxy groups; it is among the largest-known structures of the cosmos.
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Taurus (constellation)
Taurus (Latin for "the Bull") is one of the constellations of the zodiac, which means it is crossed by the plane of the ecliptic.
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Telescope
A telescope is an optical instrument that aids in the observation of remote objects by collecting electromagnetic radiation (such as visible light).
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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The Pentagon
The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, located in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. As a symbol of the U.S. military, The Pentagon is often used metonymically to refer to the U.S. Department of Defense.
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Tombaugh (crater)
Tombaugh is an impact crater on Mars, located in the Elysium quadrangle at 3.5°N latitude and 198.2°W longitude.
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Tombaugh Cliffs
Tombaugh Cliffs is a group of ice-free cliffs which stand at the north side of the mouth of Pluto Glacier and face towards the George VI Ice Shelf which occupies George VI Sound, on the east side of Alexander Island, Antarctica.
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Tombaugh Regio
Tombaugh Regio,Also nicknamed The Heart after its shape, is the largest bright surface feature of the dwarf planet Pluto.
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Trans-Neptunian object
A trans-Neptunian object (TNO, also written transneptunian object) is any minor planet in the Solar System that orbits the Sun at a greater average distance (semi-major axis) than Neptune, 30 astronomical units (AU).
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Unidentified flying object
An unidentified flying object or "UFO" is an object observed in the sky that is not readily identified.
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Unitarian Universalism
Unitarian Universalism (UU) is a liberal religion characterized by a "free and responsible search for truth and meaning".
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University of Kansas
The University of Kansas, also referred to as KU or Kansas, is a public research university in the U.S. state of Kansas.
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USA Today
USA Today is an internationally distributed American daily, middle-market newspaper that serves as the flagship publication of its owner, the Gannett Company.
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Variable star
A variable star is a star whose brightness as seen from Earth (its apparent magnitude) fluctuates.
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Venetia Burney
Venetia Katharine Douglas Phair, née Burney (11 July 1918 – 30 April 2009) was an English woman who as a girl was credited by Clyde Tombaugh with first suggesting the name Pluto for the planet he discovered in 1930.
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White Sands Missile Range
White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) is a United States Army military testing area of almost in parts of five counties in southern New Mexico.
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William Henry Pickering
William Henry Pickering (February 15, 1858 – January 16, 1938) was an American astronomer.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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15760 Albion
15760 Albion, provisional designation, was the first trans-Neptunian object to be discovered after Pluto and Charon.
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1604 Tombaugh
1604 Tombaugh, provisional designation, is a rare-type Eoan asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 32 kilometers in diameter.
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2839 Annette
2839 Annette, provisional designation, is a stony Florian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 5 kilometers in diameter.
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3754 Kathleen
3754 Kathleen, provisional designation, is a large background asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter.
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References
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