Encke, Johann Franz (1791-1865)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3604. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Astronomer, born in Hamburg, became professor and director of the observatory at Berlin. Discovered a comet in 1805, which he later found to be identical with a comet observed in 1818. Encke's Comet has a period of 3.3 years (the shortest of any comet), and Encke predicted its return for 1822 (seen only in the southern hemisphere) and in 1825 (which Encke observed from the Seeberg Observatory nea...

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