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  Events - Sal Pizarro’s Blog - San Jose Mercury News
Sal Pizarro isn't everywhere in Silicon Valley, but sometimes it seems like it.
Pizarro in mind, I quickly told her “Yes, I do.” And while this was true, it was a mistake.
I politely listened to her pitch for some manner of nail torture device, one side of which she used to eliminate lines on one of my fingernails.
mercextra.com /blogs/pizarro/category/events   (2641 words)

  
 ESO - 1996
On August 7, 1996, Eric W. Elst (Royal Observatory, Uccle, Belgium) reported his discovery of a cometary image on mid-July exposures by Guido Pizarro with the 1.0-m ESO Schmidt telescope at the La Silla Observatory.
Further ESO Schmidt plates were then obtained, and on August 19, with the help of orbital computations by Brian Marsden (IAU Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams, Cambridge, Mass., USA), Elst was able to identify the object on them.
Guido Pizarro and his brother Oscar have worked as nights assistants at the ESO Schmidt telescope since 1973.
www.eso.org /outreach/press-rel/pr-1996/phot-36-96.html   (504 words)

  
 SkyandTelescope.com - News from Sky & Telescope - A Bizarro "Cometoid"
But in 1996 a new photograph by the European Southern Observatory's Guido Pizarro showed the 18th-magnitude object accompanied by a slender tail, leading astronomer Eric Elst of Belgium's Royal Observatory to classify it as a comet.
The problem lies with the orbit of the supposed comet, which is entirely within the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Astronomer Imre Toth of Hungary's Kolkony Observatory offered an alternative explanation, proposing that the tail recorded on Pizarro's photograph was the result of an impact on the surface of an asteroid that ejected dust into space.
www.skyandtelescope.com /news/3308121.html?page=1&c=y   (568 words)

  
 Variations on a Theme | Romanticism from the canvas to the printing press to the opera house
Pizarro was a tragedy adapted by Sheridan from a German play by Kotzbue on the Spanish conqueror of Peru.
There, Pizarro wakes but accepts Rolla's challenge to his magnanimity by setting him free.
Sheridan also omits the long-winded opening scene and Elvira emerges as a woman with no illusions, taking her passion for Pizarro for what it is but at the same time maintaining her view of the ideal hero and conqueror that Pizarro still has it in him to be.
library.thinkquest.org /C0126184/english/dramaperformances.htm   (994 words)

  
 Cusco Tourist Information and Travel Guide at InfoHub.com
The Spanish city, divided up among 88 of Pizarro's men who chose to remain as settlers, was officially founded by Pizarro on March 23, 1534.
Within a year, power struggles between the colonists - two of whom were Pizarro's sons - had reached the point of open violence, though serious trouble was averted when their main rival, Almagro, departed to head an expedition to Chile.
With him out of the way, Juan and Gonzalo Pizarro were free to abuse the Inca and his subjects, which eventually provoked Manco to open resistance.
www.infohub.com /Destinations/South-America/Peru/Cusco   (1286 words)

  
 The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The orbit remains entirely within the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, with eccentricity 0.165, typical of a minor planet in the asteroid belt.
However, the images taken by Eric W. Elst and Guido Pizarro in 1996, when it was near perihelion, clearly show a cometary tail.
Since this is not normal behaviour for asteroids, it is suspected that Elst-Pizarro has a different, probably icy, composition.
www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=7968_Elst-Pizarro   (251 words)

  
 133P/(7968) Elst-Pizarro = P/1996 N2 (Elst-Pizarro)
The orbit has a very low inclination (1.4 degrees) and the distance from the Sun varies from 2.63AU at perihelion to 3.69AU at aphelion, thus there is nothing in the orbit to make it look in any way unusual.
1996, three months after perihelion, Eric Elst and Guido Pizarro, detected a faint tail and also noted that the “asteroid” was 2-3 magnitudes brighter than usual, although no coma was present.
The comet passed perihelion again at the end of November 2001 and again, several months after perihelion a tail was detected, although it was much fainter and any photometric outburst had an amplitude of less than one magnitude.
www.astrosurf.com /comets/cometas/133p/Analysis/133pElst-Pizarro.htm   (325 words)

  
 Revista Envío - Good News, Bad News, Population Views
In Nicaragua, abortions are illegal, and though the crime is rarely if ever prosecuted, women are forced to back-street abortionists or home implements if driven to rid themselves of an unwanted pregnancy.
There were extensive quotes from the speech by General Secretary Lea Guido, where she detailed the number of women injured and killed by illegal abortions.
That editorial decision was an important one; the very same information was the basis of Lea Guido's speech in September, part of her justification for AMNLAE's decision to call for decriminalization of abortion.
www.envio.org.ni /articulo/2769   (4061 words)

  
 Pizarro señaló que el árbitro Guido Aros "desperfiló" el partido
Pero creo que a partir de la situación que desencadena el segundo gol, con todo lo que sucede, pasaron varias cosas y claramente hay una parte de error nuestro también por desconectarnos del juego mismo", señaló el DT.
Junto con aclarar que "Huachipato no tiene nada que ver" en la discutida actuación de Guido Aros, Pizarro se refirió especialmente al tercer tanto de los acereros, obra de Gabriel Sandoval luego de una clara posición de adelanto de Héctor Mancilla que no fue sancionada.
Finalmente, Jaime Pizarro reiteró su absoluta confianza en que las imágenes televisivas serán aclaratorias para ratificar las críticas contra el arbitraje.
www.cooperativa.cl /p4_noticias/site/artic/20040411/pags/20040411201041.html   (479 words)

  
 SkyTonight.com - News from SkyTonight - A Bizarro "Cometoid"
But in 1996 a new photograph by the European Southern Observatory's Guido Pizarro showed the 18th-magnitude object accompanied by a slender tail, leading astronomer Eric Elst of Belgium's Royal Observatory to classify it as a comet.
The problem lies with the orbit of the supposed comet, which is entirely within the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Astronomer Imre Toth of Hungary's Kolkony Observatory offered an alternative explanation, proposing that the tail recorded on Pizarro's photograph was the result of an impact on the surface of an asteroid that ejected dust into space.
skytonight.com /news/3308121.html?page=1&c=y   (566 words)

  
 Henry Hsieh - 133P/Elst-Pizarro
These orbits also tend to be more highly inclined than that of most main belt asteroids.
EP was discovered in 1979 as a perfectly ordinary main belt asteroid (with a prototypically low eccentricity and low inclination) and was largely ignored until 1996 when Eric Elst and Guido Pizarro serendipitously discovered a long thin dust trail emanating from the object.
Analysis of this and further observations of the trail revealed that the dust had likely been emanating from EP for many months, making it difficult to explain the activity as a consequence of a simple impact.
www.ifa.hawaii.edu /~hsieh/elstpiz.html   (1037 words)

  
 CNN/SI - World Soccer - Palmeiras pulls off 5-2 win in Paraguay - Thursday March 04, 1999 03:53 PM
Guido Alvarengo shot the home side in front from a penalty before Palmeiras replied with two goals by Brazil World Cup defender Junior Baiano and one each from defender Cleber, former Atalanta striker Evair and forward Oseas in the dying minutes.
Chile's Universidad Catolica, who lost their opening game with local rivals Colo Colo, on Wednesday were held to a 1-1 draw at home by Sporting Cristal of Peru, the only club from their country to have reached the final.
Jaime Pizarro put Universidad ahead in the fourth minute with Javier Ferreira equalizing a minute later.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /soccer/world/news/1999/03/04/Palmeiras_porteno   (370 words)

  
 Astron. Astrophys. 360, 375-380 (2000)
However, some intermediate objects have recently been discovered which seem to possess properties that are typical of both categories (asteroid-comet).
On August 7, 1996 Eric W. Elst discovered an interesting intermediate object on exposures from July 14, 1996 taken by Guido Pizarro with the 1.0-m Schmidt telescope at the ESO, La Silla (Elst and Pizarro 1996).
This object surprisingly showed a cometary tail and was designated as P/1996 N2 (Elst-Pizarro) (133P/Elst-Pizarro or 7968 Elst-Pizarro), while moving in a typical asteroidal orbit in the main belt of the minor planets.
aa.springer.de /papers/0360001/2300375/sc1.htm   (622 words)

  
 Soccer365   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Argentina capitalized in the 56th minute when U.S. goalkeeper Josh Lambo miss-hit a punt, hitting a line drive that was headed back up the field by Guido Pizzaro to a streaking Federico Laurito.
Behind the U.S. defense that was pushing forward for the punt, Laurito dribbled in on goal one-v-one with Lambo and slipped his shot into the back of the net.
ARG – Federico Laurito (Guido Pizarro) 56th minute
www.soccer365.com /US_NEWS/National_Teams/page_91_117756.shtml   (592 words)

  
 My Astronomy Page
The ESO-Schmidt has been demissioned at the end of 1998, reason why we have asked for the last time this excellent instrument.
All observations (about 30 fields) have been obtained by Guido Pizarro on sensitized 4415 Kodak film.
After investigating and measuring the films, here at the Observatory at Uccle, almost 1500 new asteroids have been discovered.
www.angelfire.com /id/ericelst/astronomy.html   (376 words)

  
 channel4.com - Football Italia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Inter boss Roberto Mancini insists the pressure being piled on his outfit is a clear attempt to destabilise the team.
The Italian Olympic Committee will select a successor to Guido Rossi on Thursday after accepting his resignation.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic has dismissed suggestions that his misfiring Inter side are in the midst of a crisis.
www.channel4.com /sport/football_italia/sep1920news.html   (749 words)

  
 Amazon.com: History of the Conquest of Peru (Modern Library): Books: William H. Prescott   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The book's commanding vision of Pizarro's tumultuous overthrow of the Inca empire has secured its reputation as a classic in the literature of Latin American history.
For example, Pizarro himself was 60 when he started heading down towards Peru through terrible storms in wooden boats, often getting stranded in mosquito-infested jungles without food for months at a time.
One of the Pizarro family's most effective generals in their fights against other Spaniards was 80-84 during the period of these civil wars.
www.amazon.com /History-Conquest-Peru-Modern-Library/dp/0679603042   (1928 words)

  
 Why Blame Smallpox? The Death of the Inca Huayna Capac and the Demographic Destruction of Ancient Peru (Tawantinsuyu)
Smallpox is widely blamed for the death of the Inca Huayna Capac and blamed as well for the enormous demographic catastrophe which enveloped Ancient Peru (Tawantinsuyu).
Royal officials such as Vaca de Castro and relatives of the initial band of conquistadores, such as Pedro Pizarro, had ample reason to blame smallpox for the death of Huayna Capac and the destruction of the native populations.
To date, a paleo-epidemiological approach to representative sample populations from this period is still lacking.
www.hist.umn.edu /~rmccaa/aha2004/whypox.htm   (8279 words)

  
 Press Information Sheet on two unusual objects: 1996 PW and C/1996 N2   (Site not responding. Last check: )
His latest computation of the orbit has the object currently at its closest to the sun and located in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, although at the outer extreme of its 7000-year-period orbit 1996 PW moves out to more than 20 times the distance of Neptune.
"Comet" 1996 N2 was identified by Eric Elst at the Belgian Royal Observatory in Brussels on photographs taken by Guido Pizarro at the European Southern Observatory in Chile.
The object's tail, present on these photographs, has been fully confirmed on electronic images by several observers, who are not, however, able to detect the fuzzy head or coma that comets usually show.
cfa-www.harvard.edu /iau/pressinfo/1996PW.html   (618 words)

  
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One of their images, obtained during the night of July 11-12, 1994, with the DLR CCD camera through a narrow band filter, centered at wavelength 750 nm, will be available later today as ESO Press Photo SL9J/94-07 (also on the ESO WWW Portal).
A unique photographic plate was taken with the ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope by ESO night assistant Guido Pizarro during the night of July 11-12, 1994.
The very bright image of Jupiter appears as a huge dark spot on this long exposure, and the cometary fragments, about 100 million times fainter than the planet, are also clearly visible.
www.vt-2004.org /outreach/info-events/sl9/text/esorepjul13.txt   (1123 words)

  
 The joy of discovery: a personal experience | Science in School
For this, I worked closely with the German astronomer Hans-Emil Schuster and his night assistants, the brothers Guido and Oscar Pizarro from Chile, who did the original exposures at La Silla, as well as with the laboratory staff, including Bernard Dumoulin, Françoise Patard, Bernard Pillet and Jean Quebatte.
This plate was taken by Guido Pizarro on 24 September 1975, so I searched some other plates obtained a month earlier.
But then, incredibly, there it was: another, much fainter, trail right in the corner of a plate taken by Oscar Pizarro on 10 August.
www.scienceinschool.org /2006/issue3/comet   (1955 words)

  
 ESO Images of Comet 1996 B2 Hyakutake   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In any case, the observed, very complex structure as well as the extent of the tail system is typical of a bright and beautiful comet.
This is the provisional version of an image of Comet Hyakutake, obtained by Guido Pizarro (ESO) with the 1-metre Schmidt telescope at the La Silla Observatory.
The exposure was made on sensitized Kodak 4415 film behind a GG385 filtre.
www2.jpl.nasa.gov /comet/hyakutake/eso13.html   (473 words)

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