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Area codes 910 and 472 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for southeastern North Carolina. The area codes form an overlay for a numbering plan area (NPA) that includes the cities of Wilmington, Jacksonville, Laurinburg, Lumberton and Fayetteville. Area code 910 was established in 1993, and 472 was added to the ...
McC — McCormick Observatory Catalog; MCG — Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies; MCW — Morgan, Code, and Whitford [26] Me — Merrill (planetary nebulae) Mel — Melotte Catalogue of open star clusters (Philibert Jacques Melotte) Mercer (for example: globular star cluster Mercer 3 in Scutum) MGC (globular star clusters) (for example: MGC1 ...
US Naval Ordnance Testing Facility Observation Tower No. 2, also known as Queen's Grant Tower, is a historic building located at Topsail Island, Pender County, North Carolina. It was built in 1946 by Kellex Corporation , and is a reinforced concrete structure.
[1] [2] For the northern sky, the National Geographic Society – Palomar Observatory Sky Survey E-band (red, named after the Eastman Kodak IIIa-E emulsion used), provided almost all of the source data (plate code "XE" in the survey). [3]
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A staff of professional astronomers, engineers, and other scientists work at the observatory. In the early morning hours of Dec 24th, 2012, the institute was burglarized. Its collection of about 100 meteorites, valued at at least $80,000 and with specimens weighing up to 80 pounds (36 kg), was stolen, along with about $100,000 worth of TVs ...
The Dark Sky Observatory (DSO) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Appalachian State University (ASU). It is located 9 kilometers (5.6 miles) east of Deep Gap, North Carolina (USA), off of the Blue Ridge Parkway, and 32 kilometers (20 miles) east of the ASU campus in Boone, North Carolina It was established in 1981, and is used for research, instruction, and public viewing ...
Morehead Planetarium and Science Center is located on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.As a unit of the university, Morehead receives about one-third of its funding through state sources, one-third through ticket and gift sales, and one-third through gifts and grants.