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Palomar Mountain (păl`ōmär), peak, 6,126 ft (1,867 m) high, S Calif., NE of San Diego, in Cleveland National Forest. It is the site of the Palomar Observatory, operated by the California Institute of Technology. The Hale telescope there, completed in 1948 and named for its creator George E. Hale Hale, George Ellery, 1868–1938, American astronomer, b. Chicago, grad. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1890. He founded and directed three great observatories (Yerkes, Mt. Hale Observatories, which were jointly administered by the California Institute of Technology and the Carnegie Institution. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The top 10 California parks for families, according to the survey, are: Auburn State Recreation Area, Benbow Lake State Recreation Area, Calaveras Big Trees State Park, Emerald Bay State Park, Fallen Leaf Campground, Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, Lake Oroville State Recreation Area, Limekiln State Park, Palomar Mountain State Park and Russian Gulch State Park. Incidentally, it's on Palomar Mountain, not Mount Palomar. At Palomar Mountain Spring Water in Corona, orders in the middle two weeks of December were up 53 percent from the same period a year ago. |
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