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| x Carl Gustav Witt |
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433 Eros |
Carl Gustav Witt (October 29, 1866 – January 3, 1946) was a German astronomer.
He discovered two asteroids, most notably 433 Eros, the first known asteroid with an unusual orbit occasionally approaching the Earth's (today it is classified as an Amor...
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| x John Flamsteed |
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John Flamsteed FRS (19 August 1646 – 31 December 1719) was an English astronomer and the first Astronomer Royal.
Flamsteed was born in Denby, Derbyshire, England, and was educated at Derby School, in St Peter's Churchyard, Derby, near where his...
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| x Isaac Newton |
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Sir Isaac Newton FRS (4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727 [OS: 25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727]) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian who is perceived and considered by a substantial number...
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| x Edmond Halley |
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Comet Halley |
Edmond Halley FRS (pronounced /ˈɛdmənd ˈhɔːliː/; 8 November 1656 – 14 January 1742) was an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist, who is best known for computing the orbit of Halley's comet, which is named for...
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| x Nicolaus Copernicus |
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Nicolaus Copernicus (German: Nikolaus Kopernikus, in his youth Niclas Koppernigk; Polish: Mikołaj Kopernik; 19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was the first astronomer to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology, which displaced the Earth from...
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| x Galileo Galilei |
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Galilean moons |
Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent...
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| x Ptolemy |
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Claudius Ptolemaeus (Greek: Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαῖος Klaúdios Ptolemaîos; 90 – 168), known in English as Ptolemy (pronounced /ˈtɒləmɪ/), was a Roman citizen of Greek or Egyptian ancestry. He was a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer and a...
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| x Johannes Kepler |
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Johannes Kepler (IPA: [ˈkʰɛplɐ]) (December 27, 1571 – November 15, 1630) was a German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer, and key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution. He is best known for his eponymous laws of planetary motion,...
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| x Patrick Moore |
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Sir Alfred Patrick Caldwell-Moore, CBE, HonFRS, FRAS (born 4 March 1923 in Pinner) known as Patrick Moore, is an English amateur astronomer who has attained prominent status in astronomy as a writer, researcher, radio commentator and television...
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| x Tycho Brahe |
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Tycho Brahe, born Tyge Ottesen Brahe (de Knudstrup) (14 December 1546 – 24 October 1601), was a Danish nobleman known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical and planetary observations. Coming from Scania, then part of Denmark, now part of...
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| x Carl Sagan |
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Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, astrochemist, author, and highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics and other natural sciences. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for...
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| x Stu Megan |
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Stu , took a break from his retirement, and as a consultant, helped with the Quality Assurance testing of.... Metaweb!
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| x Giuseppe Piazzi |
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Ceres |
Giuseppe Piazzi (July 7, 1746 - July 22, 1826) was an Italian Theatine priest, mathematician, and astronomer. He was born in Ponte in Valtellina, and died in Naples. He established an observatory at Palermo, now the Osservatorio Astronomico di...
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| x Stephen Thorsett |
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Stephen Erik Thorsett (b. December 3, 1964 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American professor and astronomer. His research interests include radio pulsars and gamma ray bursts. He is best known for measurements of the masses of neutron stars and...
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| x Max Tegmark |
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Max Tegmark (born 5 May 1967) is a Swedish-American cosmologist. Tegmark is a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and belongs to the scientific directorate of the Foundational Questions Institute.
Tegmark was born as Max Shapiro...
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| x William Herschel |
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Uranus |
Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel, KH, FRS, English: Sir Frederick William Herschel, (15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822) was a German astronomer, technical expert and composer who became famous for discovering Uranus. He also discovered infrared radiation...
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| x Urbain Le Verrier |
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Neptune |
Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier (11 March 1811 – 23 September 1877) was a French mathematician who specialized in celestial mechanics and is best known for his part in the discovery of Neptune.
Le Verrier was born in Saint-Lô, France, and studied at...
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| x Francesco de Vico | 54P/de Vico-Swift-NEAT |
Father Francesco de Vico (aka de Vigo) (May 19, 1805 – November 15, 1848) was an Italian astronomer at Vatican Observatory, and also a Jesuit priest. His name is also written De Vico and even DeVico.
He discovered or co-discovered a number of comets...
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| x John Tebbutt | C/1861 J1 |
John Tebbutt (25 May 1834 – 29 November 1916) was an Australian astronomer, credited with discovering the "Great Comet of 1861" (C/1861 J1).
Tebbutt was born at Windsor, New South Wales, the only son of John Tebbutt, then a prosperous store keeper....
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| x Honoré Flaugergues | C/1811 F1 |
Honoré Flaugergues (May 16, 1755–November 26, 1835 or November 20, 1830) was a French astronomer.
(Note, different sources give different years of death).
He discovered the "Great Comet of 1811" (C/1811 F1), and independently co-discovered the ...
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| x Richard Martin West | Comet West |
Richard Martin West (born 1941) is a Danish astronomer working at the European Southern Observatory (ESO).
He discovered numerous comets, including the spectacular "Comet West" (C/1975 V1) and the periodic comets 76P/West-Kohoutek-Ikemura and 123P...
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| x Lewis E. Snyder |
Professor Lew Snyder is well known for his discoveries of numerous interstellar molecules which include formaldehyde and acetic acid.
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| x Clyde Tombaugh |
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Pluto |
Clyde William Tombaugh (February 4, 1906 – January 17, 1997) was an American astronomer.
Tombaugh is best known for discovering the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930, but also discovered many asteroids, and called for serious scientific research of...
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| x Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers |
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4 Vesta |
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers (October 11, 1758 – March 2, 1840) was a German physician and astronomer.
Olbers was born in Arbergen, near Bremen, and studied to be a physician at Göttingen. After his graduation in 1780, he began practicing...
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| x Duncan Waldron |
Duncan Waldron is a photographer and amateur astronomer.
Duncan Waldron was born in Glasgow, Scotland. His first job was creating high quality reproductions of astronomical plates for the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh. On October 10, 1986, Waldron...
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| x Eugene Merle Shoemaker |
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138P/Shoemaker-Levy |
Eugene Merle Shoemaker (or Gene Shoemaker) (April 28, 1928 – July 18, 1997) was one of the founders of the fields of planetary science. Born in Los Angeles, California, he is best known for co-discovering the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with his wife...
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| x Carolyn S. Shoemaker |
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138P/Shoemaker-Levy |
Carolyn Jean Spellmann Shoemaker (born June 24, 1929) is an American astronomer and is a co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. She holds the record for most comets discovered by an individual.
Carolyn Jean Spellmann was born in in Gallup, New...
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| x David H. Levy |
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138P/Shoemaker-Levy |
David H. Levy (born 1948) is a Canadian astronomer and science writer most famous for his co-discovery in 1993 of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which collided with the planet Jupiter in 1994.
Levy was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on May 22, 1948. He...
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| x Laurence G. Taff | |||
| x Richard Huziak |
Richard Huziak (born March 18, 1957 in Yorkton, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian amateur astronomer for whom the International Astronomical Union named main-belt asteroid 4143 Huziak. A former president of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada...
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| x Takao Kobayashi |
Takao Kobayashi (小林隆男, born 1961) is an amateur Japanese astronomer and currently works at the Oizumi Observatory.
He has discovered more than 2000 asteroids using CCD technology, including the Amor asteroids 7358 Oze, (23714) 1998 EC3, (48603) 1995...
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COROT (COnvection ROtation and planetary Transits) is a space mission led by the French Space Agency (CNES) in conjunction with the European Space Agency (ESA) and other international partners. The mission's two objectives are to search for...
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| x Cyril V. Jackson | 1349 Bechuana |
Cyril Jackson (December 5, 1903 – February 1988) was a South African astronomer.
He was born in Ossett, Yorkshire in England, but his father emigrated to South Africa in 1911.
He worked at Union Observatory in Johannesburg from 1928 to 1947 (IAU...
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| x Robert T. A. Innes |
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Robert Thorburn Ayton Innes (November 10, 1861 Edinburgh – March 13, 1933) was a Scottish-South African astronomer best known for discovering Proxima Centauri in 1915, and numerous binary stars. He was also the first astronomer to have seen the...
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| x Harry Edwin Wood |
Harry Edwin Wood (February 3, 1881–February 27, 1946) was a South African astronomer.
Wood was born in Manchester, England, but in 1906 he was appointed the Chief Assistant at the Transvaal Meteorological Observatory, which soon acquired telescopes...
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| x Willem Hendrik van den Bos |
Willem Hendrik van den Bos (Sep 25, 1896, Rotterdam – Mar 30, 1974) was a Dutch-South African astronomer. At least one source refers to him as Van der Bos, but this seems to be an error.
He initially worked at Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands,...
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| x William Stephen Finsen |
William Stephen Finsen (July 28, 1905 – May 16, 1979) was a South African astronomer.
He discovered a number of double stars and took many photographs of Mars. He developed the Finsen eyepiece interferometer to measure very close double stars. He...
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| x Kārlis Šteins |
Kārlis Šteins (October 13, 1911 in Kazan, Russian Empire - April 4, 1983) was a Latvian and Soviet astronomer and populariser of this science.
In 1925 he finished the Riga 2nd Secondary school. In 1929 he started the studies in University of Latvia,...
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| x Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth | 30P/Reinmuth |
Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth (April 4, 1892–May 6, 1979) was a German astronomer.
He was a prolific discoverer of asteroids (almost 400 of them), beginning with 796 Sarita in 1914, working at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl astronomical...
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| x Michael E. Brown |
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Eris |
Michael E. Brown (born June 5, 1965) has been a professor of planetary astronomy at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) since 2003. He was previously an associate professor at Caltech from 2002–2003 and an assistant professor at Caltech...
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| x Chad Trujillo |
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Eris |
Chadwick A. "Chad" Trujillo (born 22 November 1973), is an astronomer and the co-discoverer of the dwarf planet Eris.
Trujillo works with computer software and has examined the orbits of the numerous trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), which is the...
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| x David L. Rabinowitz |
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Eris |
David Lincoln Rabinowitz (born 1960) is a researcher at Yale University. He has built CCD cameras and software for the detection of near-Earth asteroids and Kuiper Belt Objects, and his research has helped reduce the assumed number of near-Earth...
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| x Pamela L. Gay |
Dr. Pamela L. Gay is an American astronomer, educator, podcaster, and writer, best known for her work in astronomical podcasting. She was one of the cofounders of Slacker Astronomy, and was an "on air" personality for the show from February 2005...
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| x Phil Plait |
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Dr. Philip Cary Plait (a.k.a. The Bad Astronomer) is an astronomer and skeptic who runs the website BadAstronomy.com. He formerly worked at the physics and astronomy department at Sonoma State University. In early 2007, he resigned from his job to...
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| x Antonín Mrkos | 5318 Dientzenhofer |
Antonín Mrkos (Czech pronunciation: [ˈantoɲiːn ˈmr̩kos]; 27 January 1918 – 29 May 1996) was a Czech astronomer, born in Střemchoví, Czechslovakia.
Mrkos entered the University in Brno in 1938. His studies were interrupted by the onset of World War...
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| x Marc Aaronson |
Marc Aaronson (24 August 1950 – 30 April 1987) was an American astronomer.
Aaronson was born in Los Angeles.
Aaronson was educated at the California Institute of Technology, where he received a BSc in 1972. He completed his Ph.D. in 1977 at Harvard...
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| x George Ogden Abell |
George Ogden Abell (March 1, 1927 – October 7, 1983) was an astronomer at UCLA. He worked as a research astronomer, teacher, administrator, popularizer of science and education, and skeptic. Abell received his B.S. (1951), M.S. (1952) and Ph.D. ...
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| x Antonio Abetti |
Antonio Abetti (June 19, 1846 – February 20, 1928) was an Italian astronomer.
Born in San Pietro di Gorizia, he earned a degree in mathematics and engineering at the University of Padua. Later he became director of the Osservatorio Astrofisico di...
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| x Giorgio Abetti |
Giorgio Abetti (October 5, 1882 – August 24, 1982) was an Italian solar astronomer.
He was born in Padua, the son of noted astronomer Antonio Abetti. He was educated at the Universities of Padua and of Rome.
He began his career at the Collegio...
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| x Charles Greeley Abbot |
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Charles Greeley Abbot (May 31, 1872 – December 17, 1973) was an American astrophysicist, astronomer and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He was born in Wilton, New Hampshire.
Abbot graduated from Phillips Academy in 1891 and MIT in 1894,...
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| x Charles Hitchcock Adams |
Charles Hitchcock Adams (1868 – 1951) was an amateur American astronomer.
He was born in Belmont, California, the son of William and Cassandra Adams and the last of five children. He entered the University of California in 1886 and focused his...
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| x John Couch Adams |
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Neptune |
John Couch Adams (5 June 1819 – 21 January 1892) was a British mathematician and astronomer. Adams was born in Laneast, near Launceston, Cornwall and died in Cambridge. The Cornish name Couch is pronounced "cooch".
His most famous achievement was...
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| x Walter Sydney Adams |
Walter Sydney Adams (December 20, 1876 – May 11, 1956) was an American astronomer.
He was born in Antioch, Syria to missionary parents, and was brought to the U.S. in 1885 He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1898, then continued his education in...
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| x Saul Adelman |
Saul Joseph Adelman (b. 18 November, 1944, Atlantic City) is an astronomer at The Citadel's Physics Department in Charleston, South Carolina. Adelman received his bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Maryland in 1966 and his PhD in...
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| x Petrus Alphonsi |
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Petrus Alphonsi (also known as Peter Alfonsi; born Moses Sephardi) was a Jewish Spanish writer and astronomer, and polemicist, who converted to Christianity.
Born at an unknown date in the 11th century and an unknown place within Muslim Spain, he...
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| x Agrippa |
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Agrippa (unkn-fl. 92 AD) was a Greek astronomer. The only thing that is known about him regards an astronomical observation that he made in 92 AD, which is cited by Ptolemy (Almagest, VII, 3). Ptolemy writes that in the twelfth year of the reign of...
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