Correction.Correction "Rocky Road: Planet hunting gets closer to Earth" (SN: 9/4/04, p. 147) misnamed mis·name tr.v. mis·named, mis·nam·ing, mis·names To call by a wrong name. misnamed Adjective having an inappropriate or misleading name: the telescope used to find a planet at star 55 Cancri. Astronomers made the observation at the Hobby-Eberly Telescope The Hobby-Eberly Telescope is a 9.2 m telescope located at the McDonald Observatory (). The telescope is named for former Texas Lieutenant-Governor Bill Hobby and for Robert E. Eberly, a Penn State benefactor. near Fort Davis, Texas Fort Davis is a census-designated place (CDP) in Jeff Davis County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,050 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Jeff Davis CountyGR6. . |
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