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    The Bok Telescope (also known as the 90-inch) is the largest telescope operated solely by Steward Observatory. It finds much use from astronomers from...
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  • bok, bök, or бок in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bok or BOK may refer to: Bok (lunar crater), on the Moon's far side Bok (Martian crater) Bok, Khash...
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    1975. Bok globules Bok Telescope - the Steward Observatory's 90-inch (2.3 m) telescope was named after him in 1996. C/1949 N1 - A comet that Bok co-discovered...
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    Thackeray's Globules, a set of Bok globules in the H II region IC 2944, taken with the WFPC2 instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope Bok globules located within...
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    west-southwest of Tucson, Arizona. With more than twenty optical and two radio telescopes, it is one of the largest gatherings of astronomical instruments in the...
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    in the Southern Hemisphere. Bok was the first numbered discovery made with the Stewart Observatory's 90-inch Bok Telescope. The body's name was proposed...
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  • Earth once in about 80,000 years. Observations in 2020 by the Subaru telescope confirmed David Vokrouhlický's 2015 Yarkovsky effect predictions. The...
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  • April 2023, when it was 1.3 AU (190 million km) from Earth, with the Bok Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. On 19 April 2023, with an observation...
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    in 1916, the first telescope and building were formally dedicated on April 23, 1923. It now operates, or is a partner in telescopes at five mountain-top...
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  • have access to a wide variety of telescopes, including the 90-inch (230 cm) Bok Telescope, the ARO 12m Radio Telescope, and a variety of smaller instruments...
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