Biela, Wilhelm von (1782-1856)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3472. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Austrian army officer, astronomer. Observed in 1826 the periodic comet named after him, and realized that it was identical to the comet seen in 1772 and 1805. The comet broke up in the 1850s and was not seen after the 1852 apparition. Its debris became responsible for the Andromedid (or Bielid) shower of meteors seen annually in November in the second half of the nineteenth century, until their o...

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