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  2. Discovery of Neptune - Wikipedia

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    In 1821, Alexis Bouvard had ... (1835–1913), that discovered Neptune was an achromatic refractor with an aperture of 9 Paris inches (9.6 English inches, or 24.4 cm).

  3. John Couch Adams - Wikipedia

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    The Planet Neptune: An Historical Survey before Voyager. Praxis. Sampson, R.A. (1904). "A description of Adams's manuscripts on the perturbations of Uranus". Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society. 54: 143– 161. Bibcode:1904MmRAS..54..143S. "John Couch Adams and the discovery of Neptune". Occasional Notes of the Royal Astronomical Society.

  4. Timeline of scientific discoveries - Wikipedia

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    1821: Thomas Johann Seebeck is the first to observe a property of semiconductors. ... Johann Gottfried Galle and Heinrich Louis d'Arrest: discovery of Neptune. 1847: ...

  5. Urbain Le Verrier - Wikipedia

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    Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier (French: [yʁbɛ̃ ʒɑ̃ ʒozɛf lə vɛʁje]; 11 March 1811 – 23 September 1877) was a French astronomer and mathematician who specialized in celestial mechanics and is best known for predicting the existence and position of Neptune using only mathematics.

  6. Alexis Bouvard - Wikipedia

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    Alexis Bouvard's native farm in Contamines-Montjoie. Alexis Bouvard (French pronunciation: [alɛksi buvaʁ], 27 June 1767 – 7 June 1843) was a French astronomer. [citation needed] He is particularly noted for his careful observations of the irregularities in the motion of Uranus and his hypothesis of the existence of an eighth planet in the Solar System.

  7. Scientists Discovered Mysterious Musical Rhythms in ... - AOL

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    Scientists Discovered Mysterious Musical Rhythms in Space—and Found the Secret Culprit. Jackie Appel. July 16, 2024 at 9:00 AM. ... say, the orbit of Earth and the orbit of Neptune. But there ...

  8. James Croll - Wikipedia

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    Croll was the leading proponent of an astronomical-based theory of climate change, now known as the "Astronomical Theory of Climate Change". [5] Using formulae for orbital variations developed by Urbain Le Verrier (which had led to the discovery of Neptune), Croll developed a theory of the effects of variations of the Earth's orbit on climate cycles.

  9. Astronomers surprised to find planet 'too massive for its star'

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    Our Milky Way galaxy's most common type of star is called a red dwarf - much smaller and less luminous than our sun. But the discovery of a planet at least 13 times Earth's mass orbiting very ...