March 22, 1955 — Discovery of comet 52P/Harrington-Abell by Robert G. Harrington and George O. Abell on a plate taken during the National Geographic Society-Palomar Observatory Sky Survey.
Friday, March 28, 2008
Catching Up
Here are a number of Palomar anniversaries that I let slip past me while I was on vacation last week.

March 22, 1972 – First light for the Palomar 60-inch telescope located in the Oscar Mayer Building. Thirty six years later the 60-inch is a major workhorse telescope. Its main task now is in rapid-response observations for gamma-ray bursts and other transient phenomena.
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