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# REDIRECT Kitt Peak National Observatory
The Kitt Peak National Observatory ( KPNO ) is a United States astronomical observatory site located on 2, 096 m ( 6, 880 ft ) Kitt Peak of the Quinlan Mountains in the Arizona-Sonoran Desert on the Tohono O ' odham Nation, southwest of Tucson.
Kitt Peak was selected by its first director, Aden B. Meinel, in 1958 as the site for a national observatory under contract with the National Science Foundation ( NSF ) and was administered by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy.
In 1982 NOAO was formed to consolidate the management of three optical observatories — Kitt Peak ; the National Solar Observatory facilities at Kitt Peak and Sacramento Peak, New Mexico ; and the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.
Kitt Peak is famous for hosting the first telescope ( an old 91 cm reflector ) used to search for near-Earth asteroids, and calculating the probability of an impact with planet Earth.
Kitt Peak hosts an array of programs for the public to take part in:
* Each night, Kitt Peak Visitor's Center hosts the Nightly Observing Program, which allows visitors to arrive in the late afternoon, watch the sunset, and use binoculars and telescopes to view the cosmos.
The project followed SARA astronomers from Ball State University to the observatory and featured time-lapse images from various points around Kitt Peak.
Image: Kittpeak2. jpg | View of Kitt Peak looking towards the Mayall 4-meter telescope
Image: Kitt Peak National Observatory-380 ° panorama taken from behind the Warner & Swasey Observatory. jpg | 380 ° panorama of Kitt Peak from the Warner and Swasey Observatory
Image: Kitt Peak National Observatory-400 ° panorama taken from the Mayall 4-meter observatory. jpg | 400 ° panorama from Kitt Peak's Mayall 4-meter Observatory
* Discover Magazine article about Kitt Peak, May 2005

Kitt and book
The musical has music by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Tom Kitt, lyrics by Amanda Green, and a book by Jeff Whitty.

Kitt and 2008
* 1927 – Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer ( d. 2008 )
** Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer ( d. 2008 )
* January 17-Eartha Kitt, singer ( d. 2008 )
Eartha Mae Kitt ( January 17, 1927 – December 25, 2008 ) was an American singer, actress, and cabaret star.
Kitt died from colon cancer on Christmas Day 2008 at her Weston, Connecticut home.
* Eartha Kitt ( 3 ) ( 2007, 2008, 2010 )
* Eartha Kitt ( 1927 – 2008 ), American actress, singer, and cabaret star
She was nominated a Daytime Emmy in 2008 for her performance as Malina on The Emperor's New School, but lost to Eartha Kitt, who did Yzma in the same series.

Peak and training
Coronet Peak is often the site of calendared international ski races and the training ground for many world class athletes.
Mako has recently signed a contract with the world wide YMCA organisation to assist with their training programs and her Manager, Stephen J Peak, has also attempted to obtain a contract with the production company attached to Channel 10 TV concerning the fitness show ," THE BIGGEST LOSER ".
Three major trips are undertaken each year, one of which is compulsory ; the others are during holiday time though we always take the majority of pupils: each year Exercise First Field takes place during the first weekend of the Easter holidays at the military training area in Thetford Forest in Norfolk and all of S9 and S10 travel to the Peak District during the last week of the Trinity Term for a 2 night Adventure Training trip.
He was one of the first climbers to implement a hard training regime, enabling him to ascend his difficult new routes such as Footless Crow ( on Goat Crag in the Lake District ) and Downhill Racer ( at Froggatt in the Peak District ).
Peak training took place during 1943.
On 15 January 1962, the Wing suffered its second aircraft lost when a B-47E assigned to the 529th BS on a routine training flight making bomb runs over Ft Drum crashed on the southeast slope of Wright's Peak ( a mountain top south of Plattsburgh AFB ).

Peak and book
Harney Peak is the site of the Sioux Native American Black Elk's " Great Vision " which he received when nine years old and the site to which he returned as an old man, accompanied by writer John Neihardt, who popularized the medicine man in his book Black Elk Speaks.
One episode in the book features Smith, Ryder and Henry Morley ( based on real-life friend John Montgomery ) climbing Matterhorn Peak in California.
Its content includes peer-reviewed feature articles that are research-and / or practice-based, abstracts compiled from current national and international scholarly journals, ‘ Practice notes ’ – a column devoted to articles of particular relevance to practitioners working directly with young people,Peak news ’ – updates on the activities of Australia ’ s state and national youth peak organisations, ‘ Youth matters ’ – items chosen from our news services for their relevance to research contained in the journal, book reviews and updates on Australian Government initiatives in the youth field.
Guo finds the book by chance on Iron Palm Peak.
The station building is occupied by Peak Rail's well stocked transport book shop.
In 1869 Mercer published the book " Under the Peak ; or, Jottings in Verse ".

Peak and 2008
In 2008, Peak Sun Silicon built a polysilicon production facility in Millersburg.
In addition to these schools, fall 2007 saw the opening of a new elementary, Little Cedars Elementary School followed in Fall 2008 by the much anticipated Glacier Peak High School, which should fix crowding problems for the school district.
On 8 May 2008 this referendum was held, with an overwhelming result in favour of staying within Cheshire, with less than 1 / 3 of the electors wanting to become part of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport and an even lower proportion of the population wishing the village to become part of Derbyshire's High Peak Borough.
* 2008 Michael McDonald, Soul Peak
# Swan Peak ( 2008 )
It was announced on May 7, 2008, that programme controller Chris Buckley would leave Peak FM to take up the same position at UTV's new station Central Radio in Preston but has since become a senior Programme Controller for UTV and Programme Controller at Signal 1 in Stoke-on-Trent.
A rare lunar eclipse ( shown in time lapse composite ) rises over Mission Peak in Feb. 2008
From 2 July 2011 onward, Peak Rail now operate steam trains into the " now fully restored ' down ' platform ( 2 ) having signing a fifty year lease with Network Rail on Christmas Eve 2008 " almost 3 years before ".
Simmons made contributions to the films Peak Oil – Imposed by Nature, The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil ( 2006 ), The End of Suburbia, Crude Impact, and Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash, and appeared on World Energy Television World Energy Video Interview, August 2008
Redondo Peak is sacred to various Pueblo peoples of New Mexico and, as a result, hiking and other recreational activities on the mountain are sharply restricted as of 2008.
Peak demand for 2008 was 24, 195 megawatts.
In 2008, the station switched back to " 105. 7 The Peak ", but with an alternative rock format instead.
Fremont Peak State Park was one of the 48 California state parks proposed for closure in January 2008 by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as part of a deficit reduction program.
In April 2008, Jeffrey R. Stec was listed as a defendant in a lawsuit against Peak Fitness by North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper.
June 8, 2008. jpg | north Wellsville Mountains from west, at Elwood, Utah, with Mendon Peak

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