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Herschel introduced but did not create the word "asteroid", [88] meaning star-like (from the Greek asteroeides, aster "star" + -eidos "form, shape"), in 1802 (shortly after Olbers discovered the second minor planet, 2 Pallas, in late March), to describe the star-like appearance of the small moons of the giant planets and of the minor planets ...
2000 Herschel (William Herschel) 2003 Harding (Karl Ludwig Harding) 2005 Hencke (Karl Ludwig Hencke) 2012 Guo Shou-Jing (Guo Shoujing) 2018 Schuster (Hans-Emil Schuster) 2069 Hubble (Edwin Hubble) 2074 Shoemaker (Eugene Shoemaker) 2097 Galle (Johann Gottfried Galle) 2099 Öpik (Ernst Julius Öpik) 2126 Gerasimovich (Boris Gerasimovich) 2136 ...
This is why the later discovered bodies were also named accordingly. Two more bodies that were discovered later, and considered planets when discovered, are still generally considered planets now: Uranus, discovered by William Herschel in 1781; Neptune, discovered by Johann Gottfried Galle in 1846 (based on prediction by Urbain Le Verrier)
Uranus is visible to the naked eye, but it is very dim and was not classified as a planet until 1781, when it was first observed by William Herschel. About seven decades after its discovery, consensus was reached that the planet be named after the Greek god Uranus (Ouranos), one of the Greek primordial deities.
This minor planet was named in honour of the English astronomer of German origin William Herschel (1738–1822), who discovered what he called Georgium Sidus (aka Uranus). The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 15 October 1977 (M.P.C. 4237). [15]
William Herschel, discoverer of Mimas. Mimas was discovered by the astronomer William Herschel on 17 September 1789. He recorded his discovery as follows: I continued my observations constantly, whenever the weather would permit; and the great light of the forty-feet speculum was now of so much use, that I also, on the 17th of September, detected the seventh satellite, when it was at its ...
In 1781, William Herschel was looking for binary stars in the constellation of Taurus when he observed what he thought was a new comet. Its orbit revealed that it was a new planet, Uranus, the first ever discovered telescopically. [20] Giuseppe Piazzi discovered Ceres in 1801, a small world between Mars and
French almanacs quickly reintroduced the name Herschel for Uranus, after that planet's discoverer Sir William Herschel, and Leverrier for the new planet. [51] Struve came out in favour of the name Neptune on 29 December 1846, to the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, [52] after the colour of the planet as viewed through a telescope. [53]