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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for observatory,
		Royal Greenwich Observatory astronomical observatory established in 1675 by Charles II of England; formerly known as the Royal Observatory and located at Greenwich, it moved to Herstmonceux Castle, Sussex, in 1946.
		United States Naval Observatory a federal astronomical observatory, located in Washington, D. It evolved from the Navy's oldest scientific institution, the Depot of Charts and Instruments, founded in 1830; the observatory was completed in 1844 and moved to its present site in 1893.
		Kitt Peak National Observatory astronomical observatory located southwest of Tucson, Ariz.; it was founded in 1958 under contract with the National Science Foundation and is administered by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=observatory,&StartAt=31 (597 words)

	When Did the asteroids Become Minor Planets? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Royal Greenwich Observatory began labeling observations of the asteroids with the new symbols beginning in 1858 with the publication of observations from 1856.
		And the U.S. Naval Observatory adopted the use of the new symbols in 1863 with the publication of its observations from 1852.
		The Paris Observatory also moved the observations of the asteroids to a section separate from the observations of the other planets, while the Royal Greenwich Observatory left the observations, in numerical order, between the observations of Mars and Jupiter.
	aa.usno.navy.mil /hilton/AsteroidHistory/minorplanets.html (3812 words)

	Paris Observatory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Paris Observatory (in French, Observatoire de Paris or Observatoire de Paris-Meudon) is the foremost astronomical observatory of France, and one of the largest astronomical centers in the world.
		It maintains a solar observatory at Meudon and a radio astronomy observatory at Nançay.
		The Paris Meridian is traced on the floor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paris_Observatory (399 words)

	Observatory Links
		Lucile Miller Observatory - your gateway to the skies in the Catawba Valley in North Carolina.
		The observatory belongs to NASA and is managed and operated for NASA by the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy.
		Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory - For the "increase of knowledge" through the discovery and explanation of physical processes that determine the nature and evolution of the universe.
	www.wro.org /links/Observatories.htm (1064 words)

	Documentation On The Arago Medallions
		François Arago was born in Estagel in 1786.
		Après his studies at the Polytechnic School he was appointed director of studies at the Paris Observatory and became in 1843, director delegate of the longitude office and kept his post until his death in 1853.
		Between 1893 and 1942, a bronze statue of Arago, built on the meridian line of the Paris Observatory, stood on the Ile de Sein Square.
	www.parissweethome.com /parisrentals/art_uk.php?id=28 (564 words)

	Metropole Paris - On the Meridian
		The unfamiliar Porte d'Orléans has been picked as the spot for the rendez-vous with Allan Pangborn, and it turns out he has found the fall-back because the number one 'treffpunkt' on the corner of the place does turn out to be an office of La Poste instead of a café.
		Their tip is to hit the observatory's library on Monday - it is open to the public all the time from 10:00 to 18:00 except on weekends.
		While the observatory used to be the world's time centre, it still sets France's official time; and its clock has been giving vocal time since 1933.
	www.metropoleparis.com /1999/410/410line.html (1502 words)

	Observatoire de Paris
		The Paris Observatory is a Research center in astronomy and astrophysics.
		The Observatory is structured in five laboratories, one scientific unit (Nançay) and one Institute.
		The Paris Observatory is directed by an elected President, assisted by two Vice-presidents, and an administrative and scientific council,
	www.obspm.fr /presentation.en.shtml (235 words)

	Paris Solstice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Paris Solstice is a photographic project that explores themes of astronomy, technology, society, and the history of photography.
		The conference was held at Oxford University, Magdalen College under the auspices of The Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena, IV (INSAP IV).
		A work from Paris Solstice was also included in the exhibition "Sublime Metaphor" held at Oxford University Museum in conjunction with the conference.
	home.earthlink.net /~dagarwood/photographs/id19.html (166 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Urbain-Jean-Joseph le Verrier
		An astronomer and director of the observatory at Paris, born at Saint Lô, the ancient Briodurum later called Saint-Laudifanum, in north-western France, 11 May, 1811; died at Paris, 25 September, 1877.
		Le Verrier soon received an appointment in the government administration of tobaccos; later he became a professor at the Collège Stanislas at Paris, and finally, in 1646, he was appointed professor of celestial mechanics in the faculty of sciences at the University of Paris.
		Under his skilful and prudent administration the observatory made important progress both as to equipment in instruments and, more particularly, as regards preeminent scientific achievements of which Le Verrier was the inspiration.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09205b.htm (963 words)

	A surprise award to George Smoot: The Daniel Chalonge Medal
		Sï¿½nchez, who works at the Paris Observatory, scene of the award ceremony, notes that the elegant 17th century building was built during the reign of Louis XIV.
		It straddles the Paris Meridian (which France continued to regard as the Prime Meridian for some decades after the Greenwich Meridian was chosen by an international committee in 1884).
		He was a founder of the Paris Institute of Astrophysics and worked at the Paris Observatory, which now functions as a center of research and graduate-level education, but his passion was for mountain lookouts like those on the Pic du Midi in the Pyrenees and the Jungfraujoch in the Swiss Alps.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2006-12/dbnl-asa122006.php (563 words)

	Observatory, Paris
		The Paris Observatory was completed in 1672 and has associations with several famous astronomers of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.
		It was here that Ole Rømer measured the speed of light and that Christian Hyugens found the rings of Saturn.
		Outside the Observatory is a statue of Le Verrier, the discoverer of the planet Neptune.
	www.planetware.com /paris/observatory-f-p-po.htm (80 words)

	Paris Apartment 2 Bedroom Glaciere square Albin Cachot
		This apartment has 2 bedrooms and there is beautiful view on Paris especially to the Montparnasse Tower and the Paris Observatory.
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	Tisserand biography
		This was an unfortunate time at the Paris Observatory since its Director Le Verrier had become very unpopular following his drive for efficiency and attempts were being made to have him removed.
		In 1870 Delaunay was appointed as Director of the Paris Observatory to replace Le Verrier.
		Tisserand showed remarkable abilities in his work at the Observatory and it was clear that he would soon achieve an elevated position in the world of astronomy.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /history/Biographies/Tisserand.html (603 words)

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		However, South spared the objective lens, donated it to University of Dublin in 1863, and it is still in use as the South telescope, in an 1868 Grubb equatorial mount at Dunsink Observatory that was extensively used by Robert Ball in the 1870s.
		Geneva Observatory, meridian telescope, 4 foot focal length, 1772, by Sisson, with later optics by Cauchoix.
		Observatories in Algeria, Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Greece, Netherlands, Spain, Vatican.
	home.europa.com /~telscope/tsfrance.txt (2865 words)

	Jobs at Intel - France, Paris
		Intel Paris is based in the outskirts of Paris, a smaller city called Meudon, famous for the Paris Observatory.
		Paris, France's capital and the "City of Lights," is perhaps the world's most lively and indulgent city.
		On the Rive Gauche (Left Bank), is Paris' most famous landmark, the Eiffel Tower, which was commissioned in 1887 for the World Fair.
	www.intel.com /jobs/france/sites/paris.htm (362 words)

	Search Results for observatory
		The Observatory was caught in the midst of the fighting but, fortunately for Newcomb, he had been able to leave the city three weeks earlier in the midst of the mounting crisis.
		In 1887-88 Hayes observed at the Leander McCormick Observatory of the University of Virginia.
		Soon Cassini was in charge of the Paris Observatory and he began a project to use the moons of Jupiter method in conjunction with the new data available for the size of the Earth to map the World.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /history/Search/historysearch.cgi?SUGGESTION=observatory&CONTEXT=1 (11036 words)

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	Observatory of Paris
		The Observatory of Paris, the National Astronomical Observatory, is the oldest operating observatory in the world.
		The Observatory of Paris continues to be one of the world centers for astronomic research.
		However, the Observatory of Paris still analyzes astronomical data gathered from around the world and conducts research in astronomy and astrophysics.
	www.paris-walking-tours.com /observatoryofparis.html (817 words)

	History - Surveys - Carte Du Ciel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Paris Observatory initiated the project and a few Observatories around the world participated.
		Even while work on the CPD was going on, the Paris Observatory, which became known as Carte Du Ciel (CdC), put a larger and even more ambitious project in hand.
		The aim was to prepare a photographic chart of the heavens showing stars down to the fourteenth magnitude, together with a catalogue giving the precise positions of stars down to the eleventh magnitude.
	www.saao.ac.za /assa/html/his_-_surveys_-_carte_du_ciel.html (517 words)

	Paris Meridian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A French astronomer, Abbé Jean Picard, measured the length of a degree of longitude and computed from it the size of the Earth during 1669-1670.
		Following the tradition of esoteric interpretations of this meridian, the novel hints that this is the final resting place of the Holy Grail.
		The difference between the Paris and the Greenwich meridians is a plot element in Tintin's Red Rackham's Treasure.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paris_Meridian (894 words)

	Paris Sweet Home - Vacation Rentals, Furnished Apartments in Paris, France
		When Paris was still called Lutèce, the dwellers of Saint-Louis used the river Seine waters.
		Paris was born on the "Ile de la Cité", at the intersection of a waterway and a roadway.
		At that time these grounds in that area were rather cheap to buy and that is what decided artists at the beginning of the 18th century to come and settle there.
	www.parissweethome.com /parisrentals/cultural.php (491 words)

	Dorothea Klumpke Roberts, Pioneer Woman Astronomer
		She took a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Paris (the Sorbonne) in 1886 and later won a post as attaché in the Paris Observatory.
		Quick to appreciate the enormous potential of astrophotography, Roberts established his private observatory equipping it with a 50 cm reflector with a camera, and a 13 cm Cooke refractor, the first in Wales, and later on moving it to Sussex, on the south side of London.
		Paris Observatory ($100): For years she had sent money to the Director of the Paris Observatory to be given to the younger members of the staff.
	www.aanc-astronomy.org /ArticlesForAANC/dorothea.html (2571 words)

	The Galileo Project
		His father was a greatly esteemed astronomer, head of the Paris observatory, an academicien, and active in the cartographical projects of France.
		It is clear that Jean Dominique Cassini became wealthy as the head of the observatory.
		In astronomy Cassini's primary interests were the study of planets and their satellites, the observation and theory of comets, and the tides.
	galileo.rice.edu /Catalog/NewFiles/cassini_jac.html (556 words)

	New astronomical results refine the Geological Time Scale
		Indeed, he used the orbital computations made in 1856 by Le Verrier, former director of the Paris Observatory and famed discoverer of Neptune in 1846.
		Since then, the Paris Observatory's teams have continued to be involved in the computation of the variations of planetary orbits over an extended time span.
		After Milankovitch first used Le Verrier's computational results to establish his theory of paleoclimate cycles, teams from the Paris Observatory have been involved in the contribution of astronomy to paleoclimatic studies.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2004-10/jaa-nar102504.php (1639 words)

	The Paris Meridian
		The Observatory of Paris is the oldest observatory in service in the world.
		Since 1995, the Netherlands artist Jean Dibbets marked the imaginary Meridian line across Paris with 135 bronze plaques of 12 cm in diameter set in the ground, marked North and South, and bearing the name of François Arago (1786-1853), a prominent astronomer and political figure.
		The route, of course, crosses the Observatoire de Paris (Paris Observatory).
	www.getlostmagazine.com /dumbass/2000/0003arago/0003arago.html (387 words)

	Park Montsouris - Gardens - Visiting - Mairie de Paris
		The XIVth arrondissement, a peripheral quarter of Paris and uninhabited before 1860, was to become one of the favoured locations for Napoléon III's urbanisation policy with the Parc Montsouris as a major component.
		The line of the Paris Observatory, the reference point for the Paris meridian line, dating from the time of Napoléon I, the meteorological observatory, the bandstand and the "Pavillion du Lac" restaurant bordering the ornamental lake.
		Situated in an area which remains residential, a favourite location for many artists and bordering the Cité Universitaire (student halls of residence) built by the greatest of architects, the park is an example of the symbiosis between the environment and greenery.
	www.v1.paris.fr /EN/Visiting/gardens/parc_montsouris.asp (358 words)

	Global High-Resolution H-alpha Network: Big Bear Solar Observatory
		Turbulent motions in the air near the observatory are also reduced by the smooth flow of the wind across the lake.
		Meudon was initially a solar observatory nut nowadays it is a large observatory (200 researchers), which researches in almost all topics of astronomy and astrophysics.
		Yunnan Astronomical Observatory is one of the five astronomical observatories in China, all operated by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
	www.bbso.njit.edu /Research/Halpha/ha_site.html (619 words)

	Pierre Méchain (1744-1804)
		Pierre Méchain was born on August 16, 1744 in Laon in Northern France, northwest of Reims and northeast of Paris.
		During the terror regime in Paris, while Méchain himself was away, all of his property got lost, and his family suffered greatly.
		Moreover, he was made director of the Paris Observatory, where he discovered his 8th and last comet on December 26, 1799; Messier took part in observing this one in order to obtain its orbit.
	www.seds.org /messier/xtra/history/pmechain.html (1329 words)

	Frenchless in France » Paris Meridian Medallions
		Few people are aware of these 135 bronze medallions embedded in Paris’ pavement, which start north in Montmartre and go clear across Paris, where they end at the Cité Universitaire on the edge of the city limits and Parc Montsouris.
		He was a scientist and a statesman who became director of the Paris Observatory where he lived until his death in 1853.
		My husband joined me on day one at the observatory, or at least at the locked gates of the garden where the observatory is. The observatory itself is built on the line of the Parisian Meridian with the four facades oriented towards the four points of the compass.
	lindamathieu.com /2005/09/12/paris-meridian-medallions (1057 words)

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