Galle, Johann Gottfried (1812-1910)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3638. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Astronomer, born in Pabsthaus, Germany. In 1846, at the Berlin Observatory, he discovered the planet Neptune, whose position had been calculated by LEVERRIER. Leverrier had written to Galle asking him to search for the `new planet' at a predicted location. Galle, together with his assistant HEINRICH D'ARREST, began a search on the same night that they received the letter. At D'Arrest's suggestion...

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