Cordelia Naismith, who first appears in the novel " Shards of Honor ", is a citizen of Beta Colony, and was a member of the Betan Astronomical Survey, which was converted into the Betan Expeditionary Force during wartime.
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The "'Two Micron All-Sky Survey "', or "'2MASS "', was an astronomical survey of the whole sky in the infrared spectrum and one of the most ambitious projects to do so.
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The "'Palomar Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey "'( "'PCAS "') was an astronomical survey, initiated by American astronomers Eleanor Helin and Eugene Shoemaker at the U . S Palomar Observatory, California, in 1973.
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"' VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea "'( "'VVV "') is an astronomical survey to map the Milky Way's VLT site in Paranal, Chile, to make observations in 5 bands in the near infrared.
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The "'Indiana Asteroid Program "'was a photographic astronomical survey of asteroids during 1949 1967, at the U . S . Goethe Link Observatory near Indiana University using a 10-inch " f / " 6.5 Cooke triplet astrographic camera.
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In 2012, she was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society " for her contributions to our understanding of the structure of the Milky Way and the universe and for the development software and hardware infrastructure for measuring and extracting meaningful information from large astronomical survey data sets ."
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An article published in May 2012 in the " PLA Daily " states that historical geographer Han Zhenhua ( � / cNS ) was among the first scholars to claim that the point called " Nanhai " ( literally, " South Sea " ) in that astronomical survey referred to Scarborough Shoal.
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Discovered in 2006 by the infrared 2MASS astronomical survey, "'2MASS J20004297 + 2242342 "'or " HD 189733 B " is a dim red dwarf star of spectral type M . The companion was observed at a separation of 216 astronomical units away from the primary star.
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In the 1980s large-scale astronomical surveys were showing that the galaxies were not distributed more or less uniformly around the sky, as had long been thought, but were instead concentrated in sheets and clusters and long looping chains separated by huge, black, presumably empty spaces millions of light-years across.
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The "'Palomar Leiden survey "'( "'PLS "') was a successful astronomical survey to study faint minor planets in a collaboration between the U . S Palomar Observatory and the Dutch Leiden Observatory, and resulted in the discovery of thousands of asteroids, including many Jupiter trojans.
