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| x Carl Gustav Witt |
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Carl Gustav Witt (October 29, 1866 – January 3, 1946) was a German astronomer who used to work at the popular observatory of the Urania astronomical association of Berlin (Urania Sternwarte Berlin).
He wrote a doctoral thesis under the direction of...
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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. He catalogued over 3000 stars.
Flamsteed was born in Denby, Derbyshire, England, the only son of Stephen Flamsteed. He was educated at...
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| x Isaac Newton |
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Sir Isaac Newton PRS MP (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727 [NS: 4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727]) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian, who has been "considered by many to be the greatest...
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| x Edmond Halley |
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Comet Halley |
Edmond Halley FRS (/ˈɛdmənd ˈhæli/; 8 November 1656 – 14 January 1742) was an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist who is best known for computing the orbit of the eponymous Halley's Comet. He was the second...
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| x Nicolaus Copernicus |
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Nicolaus Copernicus (German: Nikolaus Kopernikus; Italian: Nicolò Copernico; Polish: Mikołaj Kopernik (help·info); in his youth, Niclas Koppernigk; 19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance astronomer and the first person to formulate a...
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| x Galileo Galilei |
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Galilean moons |
Galileo Galilei (Italian pronunciation: [ɡaliˈlɛːo ɡaliˈlɛi]; 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...
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Claudius Ptolemy ( /ˈtɒləmi/; Greek: Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαῖος, Klaudios Ptolemaios; Latin: Claudius Ptolemaeus; c. AD 90 – c. AD 168), was a Greek-Roman citizen of Egypt who wrote in Greek. He was a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and...
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| x Johannes Kepler |
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Johannes Kepler (German pronunciation: [ˈkʰɛplɐ]; December 27, 1571 – November 15, 1630) was a German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer. A key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution, he is best known for his eponymous laws of...
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| x Patrick Moore |
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Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore, CBE, FRS, FRAS (born 4 March 1923) is a British amateur astronomer who has attained prominent status in astronomy as a writer, researcher, radio commentator and television presenter, and who is credited as having...
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| x Tycho Brahe |
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SN 1572 |
Tycho Brahe (14 December 1546 – 24 October 1601), born Tyge Ottesen Brahe, was a Danish nobleman known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical and planetary observations. Coming from Scania, then part of Denmark, now part of modern-day...
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| x Carl Sagan |
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Carl Edward Sagan ( /ˈseɪɡɪn/; November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and natural sciences. He published more than 600...
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| x Stu Megan |
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| x Giuseppe Piazzi |
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Ceres |
Giuseppe Piazzi (July 16, 1746 – July 22, 1826) was an Italian Catholic priest of the Theatine order, mathematician, and astronomer. He was born in Ponte in Valtellina, and died in Naples. He established an observatory at Palermo, now the...
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| x Stephen Thorsett |
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PSR B1620-26 b |
Stephen Erik Thorsett (born December 3, 1964) is an American professor and astronomer. His research interests include radio pulsars and gamma ray bursts. He is known for measurements of the masses of neutron stars and for the use of binary pulsars...
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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 |
Sir Frederick William Herschel, KH, FRS, German: Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel (15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822) was a German-born British astronomer, technical expert, and composer. Born in Hanover, Germany Wilhelm first followed his father into the...
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| x Urbain Le Verrier |
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Neptune |
Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier (French pronunciation: [yʁbɛ̃ ʒɑ̃ ʒɔzɛf lə vɛʁje]) (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...
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| x Francesco de Vico | 54P/de Vico-Swift-NEAT |
Father Francesco de Vico (also known as de Vigo) (Macerata, 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...
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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, Viviers, Ardèche – 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...
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| x Richard Martin West | Comet West |
Richard Martin West (born 1941) is a Danish astronomer who worked at the European Southern Observatory (ESO).
He discovered numerous comets, including Comet West (C/1975 V1), which was one of the brightest comets of the 1970s, and the periodic...
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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. Although he is best known for discovering the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930, the first object to be discovered in what would later be identified as the Kuiper Belt...
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| x Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers |
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Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers /ˈoʊlbərz/ (October 11, 1758 – March 2, 1840) was a German physician and astronomer.
Olbers was born in Arbergen, today part of Bremen, and studied to be a physician at Göttingen. After his graduation in 1780, he...
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| x Duncan Waldron | 3753 Cruithne |
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), American geologist, 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...
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| x Carolyn S. Shoemaker |
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138P/Shoemaker-Levy |
Carolyn Jean Spellmann Shoemaker (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 Gallup, New Mexico, United...
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| 129P/Shoemaker-Levy | |||
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| x David H. Levy |
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138P/Shoemaker-Levy |
David H. Levy (born May 22, 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, in 1948. He...
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| Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 | |||
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| x Laurence G. Taff | (4324) 1981 YA1 | ||
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| 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 | 4807 Noboru |
Takao Kobayashi (小林 隆男, Kobayashi Takao, born 1961) is an amateur Japanese astronomer who currently works at the Ōizumi Observatory.
Kobayashi has discovered more than 2000 asteroids using CCD technology, including the Amor asteroids 7358 Oze, ...
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| x Cyril V. Jackson | 1116 Catriona |
Cyril Jackson (5 December 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 code...
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| x Robert T. A. Innes |
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Robert Thorburn Ayton Innes (10 November 1861 – 13 March 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 Great January...
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| x Harry Edwin Wood | 715 Transvaalia |
Harry Edwin Wood (3 February 1881 – 27 February 1946) was an English astronomer.
Wood was born in Manchester, England, graduating from Manchester University in 1902 with first class honours in physics, going on to gain an M.Sc in 1905. In 1906 he...
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| x Willem Hendrik van den Bos |
Willem Hendrik van den Bos (September 25, 1896, Rotterdam – March 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...
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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, Heidelberg – 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...
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| 3227 Hasegawa | |||
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| x Michael E. Brown |
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Dysnomia |
Michael E. Brown ("Mike"; born June 5th, 1965) has been a professor of planetary astronomy at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) since 2003. His team has discovered many trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), notably the dwarf planet Eris,...
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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 outer...
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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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Philip Cary Plait, Ph.D. (a.k.a. The Bad Astronomer) is an American 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...
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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, Czechoslovakia.
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 | 52P/Harrington-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 (Šempeter-Vrtojba), he earned a degree in mathematics and engineering at the University of Padua. Later he became director of the...
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| x Giorgio Abetti |
Giorgio Abetti (5 October 1882 – 24 August 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 Romano...
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| x Charles Greeley Abbot |
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Charles Greeley Abbot (1872-1973) was an American astrophysicist and the fifth secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, serving from 1928 until 1944. Abbot went from being director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, to becoming Assistant...
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| x Charles Hitchcock Adams |
Charles Hitchcock Adams (May 25, 1868 – August 8/9, 1951) was an amateur American astronomer, and father of photographer Ansel Adams.
He was born in Belmont, California, the son of William and Cassandra Adams and the last of five children. He...
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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 |
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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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| x Paul Oswald Ahnert |
Paul Oswald Ahnert (22 November 1897 – 27 February 1989) was a German astronomer. He first became famous in Germany for publishing the "Kalender für Sternenfreunde" from 1948 until 1988, an annual calendar of astronomical events.
Ahnert was born in...
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