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To: Capt. Tom

Le Verrier may have been wrong about Vulcan, but he is credited with the discovery of Neptune. He calculated the location of a planet beyond Uranus, sent the information to an astronomer, Johann Galle, at an observatory in Berlin, and Galle found Neptune within an hour within one degree of where Le Verrier predicted it would be. That was in 1846 and Neptune takes 164.8 years to go around the sun once, so it is now very close to where it was when it was discovered.


41 posted on 01/20/2015 11:10:02 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus
Le Verrier may have been wrong about Vulcan, but he is credited with the discovery of Neptune.

Based on the Vulcan episode. I would expect modern scientists to be more careful in predicting new planets - so this could prove to be true.-Tom

46 posted on 01/20/2015 4:50:55 PM PST by Capt. Tom (Don't confuse U.S. citizens and Americans. They are not necessarily the same. -tom)
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