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Latin Name
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Lat
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Long
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Diam
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Origin
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Palisa
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9.4S
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7.2W
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33
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Johann; Czechoslovakian-Austrian astronomer
(1848-1925).
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Palitzsch
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28.0S
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64.5E
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41
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Johann Georg; German astronomer (1723-1788).
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Pallas
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5.5N
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1.6W
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46
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Peter Simon; German geologist, natural
historian (1741-1811).
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Palmieri
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28.6S
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47.7W
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40
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Luigi; Italian physicist, mathematician (1807-1896).
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Paneth
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63.0N
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94.8W
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65
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Friedrich Adolf; German chemist (1887-1958).
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Pannekoek
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4.2S
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140.5E
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71
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Antonie; Dutch astronomer (1873-1960).
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Papaleksi
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10.2N
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164.0E
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97
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Nikolaj D.; Soviet physicist (1880-1947).
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Paracelsus
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23.0S
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163.1E
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83
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Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, or Philippus
Aureolus ~; Swiss
doctor, pioneering alchemist and metallurgist (1493-1541).
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Paraskevopoulos
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50.4N
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149.9
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94
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John S.; Greek-American astronomer (1889-1951).
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Parenago
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25.9N
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108.5W
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93
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Pavel P.; Soviet astronomer (1906-1960).
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Parkhurst
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33.4S
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103.6E
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96
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John A.; American astronomer (1861-1925).
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Parrot
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14.5S
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3.3E
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70
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Johann Jacob F. W.; Russian doctor, physicist
(1792-1840).
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Parry
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7.9S
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15.8W
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47
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William Edward; British explorer (1790-1855).
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Parsons
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37.3N
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171.2W
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40
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John W.; American rocketry scientist (1913-1952).
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Pascal
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74.6N
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70.3W
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115
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Blaise; French mathematician (1623-1662).
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Paschen
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13.5S
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139.8W
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124
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Friedrich; German physicist (1865-1940).
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Pasteur
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11.9S
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104.6E
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224
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Louis; French chemist, microbiologist (1822-1895).
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Patricia
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25.0N
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0.3E
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5
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English female name.
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Patsaev
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16.7S
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133.4E
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55
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Viktor I.; Soviet engineer (1933-1971).
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Pauli
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44.5S
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136.4E
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84
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Wolfgang; Austrian-American physicist; awarded the
1945 Nobel Prize in Physics for his enunciation of the exclusion
principle, fundamental to quantum mechanics (1900-1958).
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Pavlov
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28.8S
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142.5E
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148
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Ivan P.; Soviet physiologist; Nobel laureate
(1849-1936).
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Pawsey
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44.5N
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145.0E
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60
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Joseph L.; Australian radio astronomer
(1908-1962).
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Peary
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88.6N
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33.0E
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73
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Robert E.; American explorer (1856-1920).
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Pease
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12.5N
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106.1W
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38
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Francis G.; American astronomer (1881-1938).
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Peek
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2.6N
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86.9E
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12
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Bertrand Meigh; British astronomer (1891-1965).
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Peirce
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18.3N
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53.5E
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18
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Benjamin; American mathematician, astronomer
(1809-1880).
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Peirescius
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46.5S
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67.6E
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61
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Nicolas Claude Fabri de Peiresc, or ~; French
astronomer, archaeologist (1580-1637).
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Pentland
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64.6S
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11.5E
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56
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Joseph Barclay; Irish geographer (1797-1873).
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Perel'man
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24.0S
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106.0E
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46
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Yakov I.; Soviet rocketry scientist (1882-1942).
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Perepelkin
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10.0S
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129.0E
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97
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Evgenij J.; Soviet astrophysicist (1906-1940).
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Perkin
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47.2N
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175.9W
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62
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Richard S.; American telescope manufacturer
(1906-1969).
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Perrine
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42.5N
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127.8W
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86
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Charles D.; American astronomer (1867-1951).
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Petavius
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25.1S
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60.4E
|
188
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Denis Petau, or ~; French chronologist, astronomer
(1583-1652).
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Petermann
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74.2N
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66.3E
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73
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August Heinrich; German geographer (1822-1878).
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Peters
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68.1N
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29.5E
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15
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Christian August Friedrich; German astronomer
(1806-1880).
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Petit
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2.3N
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63.5E
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5
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Alexis Therese; French physicist (1771-1820).
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Petrie
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45.3N
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108.4E
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33
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Robert M.; Canadian astronomer (1906-1966).
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Petropavlovskiy
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37.2N
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114.8W
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63
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Boris S.; Soviet rocketry engineer (1898-1933).
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Petrov
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61.4S
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88.0E
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49
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Evgenij S.; Soviet rocketry scientist (1900-1942).
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Pettit
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27.5S
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86.6W
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35
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Edison; American astronomer (1889-1962).
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Petzval
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62.7S
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110.4W
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90
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Joseph von; Austrian optician (1807-1891).
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Phillips
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26.6S
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75.3E
|
122
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John; British geologist, astronomer (1800-1874).
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Philolaus
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72.1N
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32.4W
|
70
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~ of Croton; Greek mathematician, astronomer,
philosopher (?-fl. 400 B.C.).
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Phocylides
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52.7S
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57.0W
|
121
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Johannes Phocylides Holwarda (Jan Fokker);
Dutch astronomer (1618-1651).
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Piazzi
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36.6S
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67.9W
|
134
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Giuseppe; Italian astronomer (1746-1826).
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Piazzi-Smyth
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41.9N
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3.2W
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13
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Charles; Scottish astronomer (1819-1900).
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Picard
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14.6N
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54.7E
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22
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Jean; French astronomer (1620-1682).
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Piccolomini
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29.7S
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32.2E
|
87
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Alessandro; Italian astronomer (1508-1578).
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Pickering
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2.9S
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7.0E
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15
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Edward Charles; American astronomer (1846-1919); William
Henry; American astronomer; discovered the ninth moon of Saturn,
called Phoebe, and also announced the finding of a tenth satellite
(not confirmed until 1967). In 1919, he predicted the existence and
location of a ninth planet, confirmed later and named Pluto. His
observations of the Moon, including the study of its craters, is
considered a landmark work.
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Pictet
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43.6S
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7.4W
|
62
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Marc-Auguste ~-Turretin; Swiss physicist (1752-1825).
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Pikel'ner
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47.9S
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123.3E
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47
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Solomon Borisovich; Soviet astronomer,
cosmologist (1921-1975).
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Pilatre
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60.2S
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86.9W
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50
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~ de Rozier; French aeronaut; made one of the first
balloon ascents by man, to a tethered height of 25 meters
(1753-1785).
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Pingre
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58.7S
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73.7W
|
88
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Alexandre Guy; French astronomer (1711-1796).
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Pirandello
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2.8N
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88.8E
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8
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Luigi; Italian playwright, novelist (1867-1936).
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Pirquet
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20.3S
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139.6E
|
65
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Baron Guido von ~; Austrian mechanical engineer;
developed pioneering theories on spacecraft trajectories; his
calculated trajectory for a space probe to reach Venus, published in
1928, was identical to the one used by the first Soviet
interplanetary spacecraft to Venus in 1961 (1880-1966)
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Pitatus
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29.9S
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13.5W
|
106
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Pitati, Pietro; Italian astronomer, mathematician
(?-fl. c. 1500)
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Pitiscus
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50.4S
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30.9E
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82
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Bartholemaeus; German mathematician (1561-1613).
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Pizzetti
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34.9S
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118.8E
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44
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P.; Italian geodesist (1860-1918).
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Plana
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42.2N
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28.2E
|
44
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Baron Giovanni Antonio Amedeo; Italian astronomer and
geometrician (1781-1864).
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Planck
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57.9S
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136.8E
|
314
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Max Karl Ernst; German physicist; Nobel
laureate (1858-1947).
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Plante
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10.2S
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163.3E
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37
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Gaston; French physicist (1834-1889).
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Plaskett
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82.1N
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174.3E
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109
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John S.; Canadian astronomer (1865-1941).
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Plato
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51.6N
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9.4W
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109
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~; Greek philosopher c.428-c.347 B.C.
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Playfair
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23.5S
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8.4E
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47
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John; Scottish mathematician, geologist (1748-1819).
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Plinius
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15.4N
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23.7E
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43
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Caius ~ Secundus (Pliny The Elder); Roman
natural scientist (c.A.D. 23–A.D.
79)
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Plummer
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25.0S
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155.0W
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73
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Henry C.; British astronomer (1875-1946).
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Plutarch
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24.1N
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79.0E
|
68
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Greek essayist and biographer (c.A.D. 46-c.A.D. 120).
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Poczobutt
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57.1N
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98.8W
|
195
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Martin Odlanicky; Polish astronomer (1728-1810).
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Pogson
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42.2S
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110.5E
|
50
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Norman Robert; British astronomer (1829-1891).
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Poincare
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56.7S
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163.6E
|
319
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Jules Henri; French mathematician, physicist
(1854-1912).
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Poinsot
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79.5N
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145.7W
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68
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Louis; French mathematician (1777-1859).
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Poisson
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30.4S
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10.6E
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42
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Simeon Denis; French mathematician (1781-1840).
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Polybius
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22.4S
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25.6E
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41
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Greek historian (204?-122? B.C.).
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Polzunov
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25.3N
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114.6E
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67
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Ivan I.; Russian heat engineer (1728-1766).
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Pomortsev
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0.7N
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66.9E
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23
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Mikhail Mikhailovich; Russian rocketry
scientist (1851-1916).
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Poncelet
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75.8N
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54.1W
|
69
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Jean V.; French mathematician, engineer (1788-1867).
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Pons
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25.3S
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21.5E
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41
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Jean Louis; French astronomer (1761-1831).
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Pontanus
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28.4S
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14.4E
|
57
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Giovanni Gioviani Pontano, or ~; Italian astronomer
(1427-1503).
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Pontécoulant
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58.7S
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66.0E
|
91
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Philippe Gustave Doulcet, Comte de ~; French
mathematician (1795-1874).
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Pope
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9.5S
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89.0E
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17
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Alexander; British writer (1688-1744).
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Popov
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17.2N
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99.7E
|
65
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Aleksandr S.; Russian physicist, engineer (1859-1905);
C.; Bulgarian astronomer (1880-1966).
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Porter
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56.1S
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10.1W
|
51
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Russell W.; American telescope designer
(1871-1949).
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Posidonius
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31.8N
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29.9E
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95
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~ of Apamea; Greek geographer (135?-51?
B.C.).
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Poynting
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18.1N
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133.4W
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128
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John H.; British physicist (1852-1914).
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Prager
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3.9S
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130.5E
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60
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Richard A.; German-American astronomer
(1884-1945).
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Prandtl
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60.1S
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141.8E
|
91
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Ludwig; German physicist (1875-1953).
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Priestley
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57.3S
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108.4E
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52
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Joseph; British chemist (1733-1804).
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Prinz
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25.5N
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44.1W
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46
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Wilhelm; German-Belgian astronomer (1857-1910).
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Priscilla
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0.0N
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0.0E
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0
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Latin female name.
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Proclus
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16.1N
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46.8E
|
28
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Diadochos (The Successor); Greek Neoplatonic
philosopher, mathematician and astronomer (410?-485).
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Proctor
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46.4S
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5.1W
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52
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Mary; American astronomer (1862-1957).
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Protagoras
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56.0N
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7.3E
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21
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Greek philosopher (481(?)-411(?) B.C.).
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Ptolemaeus
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9.3S
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1.9W
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164
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Ptolemy, or Claudius ~; Greco-Egyptian mathematician,
astronomer and geographer (fl. 2nd cent. A.D.).
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Puiseux
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27.8S
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39.0W
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24
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Pierre; French astronomer (1855-1928).
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Pupin
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23.8N
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11.0W
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2
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Michael Idvorsky; Yugoslavian-American
physicist (1858-1935).
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Purbach
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25.5S
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2.3W
|
115
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Georg von; Austrian mathematician, astronomer
(1423-1461).
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Purkynve
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1.6S
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94.9E
|
48
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Jan Evangelista; Czechoslovakian doctor,
physiologist (1787-1869).
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Pythagoras
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63.5N
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63.0W
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142
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~ of Samos; Greek philosopher and mathematician (?-fl. c. 532
B.C.).
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Pytheas
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20.5N
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20.6W
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20
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~ of Marseilles; Greek navigator, explorer and geographer
(b. c. 308 B.C.).
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