Palomar may refer to:
Places
* Any of several locations in San Diego County, California:
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Palomar Mountain
Palomar Mountain ( ; es, Monte Palomar ) is a mountain ridge in the Peninsular Ranges in northern San Diego County. It is famous as the location of the Palomar Observatory and Hale Telescope, and known for the Palomar Mountain State Park.
Hist ...
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Palomar Observatory
Palomar Observatory is an astronomical research observatory in San Diego County, California, United States, in the Palomar Mountain Range. It is owned and operated by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Research time at the observat ...
, located on Palomar Mountain
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Palomar College in San Marcos, California
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Palomar Medical Center
Palomar Medical Center Escondido is a hospital located in Escondido, California. It is operated by the Palomar Health District (formerly known as Palomar Pomerado Health), which also operates Palomar Medical Center Poway in nearby Poway. Palomar M ...
in Escondido, California
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Palomar Airport, officially McClellan-Palomar Airport, in Carlsbad, California
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El Palomar, Buenos Aires, a city in Argentina
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El Palomar (airbase)
Palomar may refer to:
Places
* Any of several locations in San Diego County, California:
** Palomar Mountain
** Palomar Observatory, located on Palomar Mountain
** Palomar College in San Marcos, California
** Palomar Medical Center in Escondido, ...
, Argentina
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El Palomar, Valencia
El Palomar is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of Vall d'Albaida in the Valencian Community
The Valencian Community ( ca-valencia, Comunitat Valenciana, es, Comunidad Valenciana) is an autonomous community of Spain. It is the fourth most ...
, a municipality in Spain
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Palomar de Arroyos
Palomar de Arroyos is a municipality located in the province of Teruel, Aragon, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE
INE, Ine or ine may refer to:
Institutions
* Institut für Nukleare Entsorgung, a German nuclear research center
* Institu ...
, a town in Aragón, Spain
Music
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Palomar (band)
Palomar is an indie rock band out of Brooklyn, New York.
Profile
The band originally formed in 1998. Rachel Warren is the only original member still in the band, though Rachel and Christina (almost original member) had been in the band Trixie Be ...
, a band from Brooklyn, New York
* Palomar, a band formed by three members of
Paw
* "Palomar", a 1992 song by the Rheostatics from ''
Whale Music ''Whale music'' is a term for whale sound. It may also refer to:
*'' Whale Music'', a 1989 novel by Paul Quarrington
* ''Whale Music'' (film), a 1994 Canadian film based on the Quarrington novel
**'' Music from the Motion Picture Whale Music'', the ...
''
Other uses
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''Palomar'' (comics), a 2003 graphic novel by Gilbert Hernandez
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Palomar Ballroom
The Palomar Ballroom, built in 1925, was a famous ballroom in Los Angeles, California, in the United States. It was destroyed by a fire on October 2, 1939.
Originally named the El Patio Ballroom and located on the east side of Vermont Avenue betw ...
, in Los Angeles, California
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Palomar Handicap, a horse race
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Palomar knot
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Palomar Pictures, a subsidiary of ABC Pictures
People with the surname
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Arnau de Palomar (fl. c. 1150), Catalan nobleman
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Enrique de la Mora y Palomar (1907–1978), Mexican architect
* Jared Palomar, member of
Augustana
See also
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Hotel Palomar (Washington, D.C.)
The Royal Sonesta Washington DC Dupont Circle is a 335-room, boutique hotel located at 2121 P Street Northwest in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
History
The Georgetown Hotel opened in 1967. It was constructed by Washington ban ...
* ''
Mr. Palomar
''Mr. Palomar'' is a 1983 novel by the Italian writer Italo Calvino. Its original Italian title is ''Palomar''. In an interview with Gregory Lucente, Calvino stated that he began writing ''Mr. Palomar'' in 1975, making it a predecessor to earlier ...
'', a 1983 novel by Italo Calvino
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Palomares (disambiguation)
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Palomar Sky Survey
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Palomar Transient Factory
The Palomar Transient Factory (PTF, obs. code: I41), was an astronomical survey using a wide-field survey camera designed to search for optical transient and variable sources such as variable stars, supernovae, asteroids and comets. The projec ...
, an astronomical wide-field survey
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Palomar Testbed Interferometer
The Palomar Testbed Interferometer (PTI) was a near infrared, long-baseline stellar interferometer located at Palomar Observatory in north San Diego County, California, United States. It was built by Caltech and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and w ...
at Palomar Observatory
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Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey
The Palomar Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey (PCAS) was an astronomical survey, initiated by American astronomers Eleanor Helin and Eugene Shoemaker at the U.S Palomar Observatory, California, in 1973. The program is responsible for the discovery o ...
, initiated in 1973
* Señor Palomar, a character in
Lego Adventurers theme
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