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Peter Simon Pallas , 1741-1811, German naturalist and explorer. He became (1768) professor at the Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. In 1769, Pallas was a member of an expedition to observe the transit of Venus, and until 1774 he explored the upper Amur, the Caspian Sea, and the Ural and Altai mts., collecting valuable specimens in natural history. Pallas published (1771-76) an account of the journey and also wrote on natural history and on Bering's discoveries.

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pallasite

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pallasite A class of stony-iron meteorite named after the German naturalist Peter Simon Pallas (1741–1811), who found a 680-kg specimen near Krasnojarsk, Russia, in 1772. In pallasites, cavities in the nickel–iron metal are filled with crystals of the hard, glassy silicate mineral olivine; the proportions of metal and silicate are about the same.

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Simon Peter, St

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church | 2000 | | Â© The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church 2000, originally published by Oxford University Press 2000. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Simon Peter, St. An alternative designation for St Peter, who was originally called Simon.

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