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blunthead

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YERKES OBSERVATORY
University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory is an astronomical observatory located at Williams Bay, Wisconsin, USA. It has a 40 inch (102 cm) refracting telescope; this is the largest refractor in the world. The Observatory was named for Charles Tyson Yerkes (1837-1905), a Chicago transportation tycoon who financed it. The observatory was designed by George E. Hale in 1892.
 

Neesy

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May 24, 2012
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You guys are all nutz - I better go get some 'shut-eye'

Sayanora, Arrivaderci, Ciao etc. (all probably spelled incorrectly)
YERKES OBSERVATORY
University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory is an astronomical observatory located at Williams Bay, Wisconsin, USA. It has a 40 inch (102 cm) refracting telescope; this is the largest refractor in the world. The Observatory was named for Charles Tyson Yerkes (1837-1905), a Chicago transportation tycoon who financed it. The observatory was designed by George E. Hale in 1892.
What about X?

Here you go - X-Men - they should be in outer space - or how about The Creature from Planet X?

:-o
 

blunthead

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You guys are all nutz - I better go get some 'shut-eye'

Sayanora, Arrivaderci, Ciao etc. (all probably spelled incorrectly)

What about X?

Here you go - X-Men - they should be in outer space - or how about The Creature from Planet X?

:-o
SEE?!?! How can anybody keep up with all this CHATTING!!! It takes a stranger visiting from planet X to point it out. Damn.
 

Neesy

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Want me to define that too ? :biggrin2:

And we missed X.
X is for Planet X
The Sun's eighth planet, Neptune, was discovered in 1846. Astronomers studied the motion of Neptune very carefully and found that it was not completely regular. They decided that there must be another big planet out there disturbing Neptune. They called this planet 'Planet X', because they didn't know anything about it.

For 80 years, they searched for Planet X. While doing this, they found Pluto, which they named the 9th planet; unfortunately, Pluto is not big enough to be Planet X. It's not even big enough to be a proper planet, so eventually in 2006 it was struck off the list of planets. The man who found Pluto, Claude Tombaugh, continued his search until eventually he had searched all the likely places in the entire sky where Planet X might be.

At this stage, most astronomers believe that there is no Planet X. The disturbances in Neptune's orbit turned out to be mistakes in the original observations. When the Voyager spaceships passed Neptune, they gave us much more accurate details of Neptune's position, and it is exactly where it should be. So there is no Planet X.
 

blunthead

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Aug 2, 2006
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195,461
Atlanta GA
YERKES OBSERVATORY
University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory is an astronomical observatory located at Williams Bay, Wisconsin, USA. It has a 40 inch (102 cm) refracting telescope; this is the largest refractor in the world. The Observatory was named for Charles Tyson Yerkes (1837-1905), a Chicago transportation tycoon who financed it. The observatory was designed by George E. Hale in 1892.
There. Now Z.
 
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