Palomar
Americannoun
noun
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When the object was first identified in 2018, spectra obtained with the 200-inch Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory showed no special features.
From Science Daily • Nov. 7, 2025
AXA XL, Fortegra and Palomar are among its partners.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025
On Tuesday, two letters were posted on a chain link fence surrounding the trailers in the 20700 block of Palomar Street, according to neighbors.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2025
It took less than two minutes for the ultra high-definition video to reach Caltech’s Palomar Observatory, sent at the test system’s maximum rate of 267 megabits per second.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 19, 2023
They spent one week each month at the Palomar Observatory in California looking for objects, asteroids primarily, whose trajectories carried them across Earth’s orbit.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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