It will linger at Vesta, the second most massive object in the asteroid belt, until next summer, when it is scheduled to depart for a larger asteroid called Ceres.

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Holograms are interference patterns generated by the interaction of a blank reference laser beam with a second beam that has been reflected from an object of interest.

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The second incident related to a "retained foreign object post-operation".

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The previous month linesman Cesar David Escribano was struck by an object thrown from the stands during a second division match at Cartagonova.

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That reduced the number of photons emitted every second, thus increasing the time it took to analyse an object to ten seconds.

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The second triumphalist episode, in which the cross becomes a common object in Barbarian graves, is reflected in the exhibits in the final rooms.

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In the second world war Mr Pierce worked on radar, in which signals directed at an object are bounced back to the transmitter.

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The second time, he is alone, and his father is becoming a thing, an object.

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The object appears to have approached Tunguska from the southeast at about 11 km per second (7 miles a second).

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After the object is no longer detected on or near the touch screen display, the document is translated in a second direction until the area beyond the edge of the document is no longer displayed.

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