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 The Neptune File - Tom Standage
 The Neptune File - Tom Standage ... discovery of the planet Neptune in 1846. Combining scientific triumph with international controversy, this is an intriguing tale of the search for an unseen planet, and the uproar it caused.Newest Review: ... to King George III. It's not quite true to say that Herschel wanted to call the new planet George after his royal master ... more ... - he actually proposed the name Georgium Sidus (the Georgian Star). It was a German astronomer (Johann Bode) who thought of Uranus. (Who said Germans don't
have a sense of humour?) However, star-gazers were soon perturbed - or rather Uranus was. Nobody's calculations for the orbit of Uranus seemed to fit, there were mysterious perturbations, leading to speculation that there was something else out there... Enter our hero, John...more |
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The Neptune File - Tom Standage: Does Uranus Look Big In This? (1103 words)
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I was on my way back from town last night, and up in the clear twilight sky there was one star shining brightly. Ahhh. Well, I say star, but presumably it was Venus, our nearest neighbour in the Solar System, after the moon. Before March 13th, 1781, it was believed that there were just five other planets in the Solar System besides the Earth. (Namely:- Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.) On that night a musician called William Herschel erected his seven foot telescopic instrument, looked up, and saw Uranus - unleashing an astronomical number of double entendres onto an unsuspecting universe. What neither Herschel nor anyone else knew, was that ... Read the complete review
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