The Maria Mitchell Observatory in Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA, was founded in 1908 and named in honor of Maria Mitchell, the first American woman astronomer...
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Science. Mitchell is the namesake of the Maria Mitchell Association, the Maria Mitchell Observatory, and the Maria Mitchell Aquarium. Maria Mitchell was born...
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assistant of Maria Mitchell at Vassar. Upon Mitchell's retirement in 1888, Whitney became a professor and the director of the observatory there until she...
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status of National Historic Landmark. The observatory's significance is due to its association with Maria Mitchell, the first widely known female astronomer...
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association owns the Maria Mitchell Observatory, a second observatory (the Loines Observatory), a Natural History Museum, the Maria Mitchell Aquarium at Nantucket...
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the crater midpoint which is closest to Mitchell. 1455 Mitchella, asteroid Maria Mitchell Observatory "Mitchell (crater)". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature...
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Margaret Harwood (category Harvard College Observatory people)
astronomer specializing in photometry and the first director of the Maria Mitchell Observatory in Nantucket, Massachusetts. An asteroid discovered in 1960 was...
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work as the director of the Maria Mitchell Observatory in Nantucket and for her biographical writings on Maria Mitchell. Belserene was a student at New...
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This is a list of observatory codes (IAU codes or MPC codes) published by the Minor Planet Center. For a detailed description, see observations of small...
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independently wealthy throughout her life. She learned of talks at Maria Mitchell Observatory while vacationing with her family on Nantucket, and took an evening...
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