He discovered Uranus as well as 2 of its moons
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We might have just discovered 2 dark moons hidden near Uranus ...  3 days ago ... We might have just discovered 2 dark moons hidden near Uranus ... He also said that Hubble is the "best bet" for finding these new Uranian ... It's been a good year for our Solar System, with a new dwarf planet discovered last...
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Uranus - Moons | Planets - NASA Solar System Exploration  Oberon and Titania are the largest Uranian moons, and were first to be discovered -- by ... All of Uranus's inner moons (those observed by Voyager 2) appear to be ... Unidentified dark material appears on the floors of many of its craters. ... "Well shone, Moon," wrote Shakespeare, "truly, the moon shines with a good grace.".
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Moons of Uranus - Wikipedia  Uranus, the seventh planet of the Solar System, has 27 known moons, all of which are named ... William Herschel discovered the first two moons, Titania and Oberon, in 1787, ... Lassell's observations of 1851, in which he discovered Ariel and Umbriel, however, ... Uranus is about 10,000 times more massive than its moons.
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Uranus moons discovery: Two new 'moonlets' found orbiting planet ...  3 days ago ... Scientists believe they have discovered two new moons orbiting the planet Uranus. A team ... lurking behind the large gas planet and making "waves" in its closest rings. ... That would definitely be a good way to do it, he said.
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Moons of Uranus: Facts About the Tilted Planet's Satellites  Jun 30, 2016 ... The discovery of Uranus and its first two moons came from the same astronomer: ... and Titania in 1787, just six years after discovering the planet itself. ... 12 new Uranus moons using the Voyager 2 data, as well as with newer...
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Uranium's scientific history 1789 - 1939  The bicentenary of the discovery of uranium coincides with the fiftieth anniversary ... out in 1789 by a talented self-educated German chemist, Martin Klaproth. ... He proposed, until a better name was found, to call his element after the last planet ... His fame was crowned by the discovery of a new planet, named Uranus after...
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IELTS Academic Reading Sample 18 - The Discovery of Uranus  Sep 11, 2016 ... Throughout the Earth's annual revolution around the sun, there is ... Serious observation began 1774. ... It was during the latter part of this that he discovered Uranus. ... In 1977, while recording the occultation 1 of a star behind the planet, ... astronomer James L. Elliot discovered the presence of five rings...
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Names of the Moons of Uranus, Who Named Them, and Where ...  Aug 28, 2009 ... While three moons of Uranus were named after characters in Alexander ... the rest have been named after characters in plays by William Shakespeare. ... Lassell discovered two more moons circling around the giant planet with the ... Since most people labor under the delusion that Ariel joins Miranda as...
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Uranus - Wikiquote  Nearly a twin in size to Neptune, Uranus has more methane in its mainly ... Uranian time) in about 84 Earth years; Uranus is an ice giant; Most (80 percent or more) of the ... million km; period of revolution around sun: 84 years; period of axial rotation: ... discovered and identified as such in 1781 by Sir William Herschel (it had...
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Discovery of Neptune - Wikipedia  The planet Neptune was mathematically predicted before it was directly observed. With a ... By 1847 the planet Uranus had completed nearly one full orbit since its ... The discovery of Neptune led to the discovery of its moon Triton by William ... and its apparent size too small, to clearly appear to be a planet in Galileo's small...
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Hubble Finds Two Chaotically Tumbling Pluto Moons  Jun 3, 2015 ... If you lived on one of Pluto's moons Nix or Hydra, you'd have a hard time ... Scientists believe the other two small moons, Kerberos and Styx, ... by the system's two central bodies, Pluto and Charon, whirling about each other. ... NASA's Kepler space observatory has found several planetary systems orbiting...
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Cosmic Pluralism: How Christianity briefly conquered the solar system  Jun 30, 2011 ... Earth was just one of many worlds orbiting the Sun, which forced scientists ... of the 18th and 19th century, including Uranus discoverer Sir William Herschel, ... and the telescope provided clear proof that celestial bodies like the Moon .... need not hesitate to admit that the sun is richly stored with inhabitants.
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Galilean moons - Wikipedia  The Galilean moons are the four largest moons of JupiterIo, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. They were discovered by Galileo Galilei around January 1610 and were the first group of objects found to orbit another planet. Their names derive from the lovers of Zeus. .... It was named after Io, a priestess of Hera who became one of the lovers of...
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Neptune - Neptune's moons and rings | planet | Britannica.com  Prior to Voyager 2's encounter, Neptune's only known moons were Triton, ... and Nereid, discovered in telescopic photographs more than a century later, in 1949. ... Triton is the only large moon of the solar system that travels around its planet in ... In 1989 Voyager's observations added six previously unknown moons to...
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Today in science: A moon for Mars | Space | EarthSky  Aug 17, 2016 ... American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered Phobos, one of the two Martian moons, on this date in 1877. Did he ... Scientists got the first good look at Phobos in 1971 and 1972, during Mariner 9's mission to the planet.
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: Neptune Essay Research Paper Little was known ...  On August 25, 1989, the voyager discovered Neptune, but only after. traveling 12 years at an ... diameter. Neptune is smaller in diameter but larger in mass than Uranus. ... In addition to the previously known moons Triton and Nereid,. Voyager 2 found six more moons orbiting Neptune, for a total of eight. known moons.
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Why are Uranus' moons named after Shakespearean characters? |  Jan 20, 2015 ... The moons of Uranus take their names from characters in the plays of ... of a particular planet, they usually tried to match moon names to planet names in a ... When more moons were discovered by Gerard Kuiper and William...
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The Discovery of the Galilean Satellites - Views of the Solar System  Galileo first observed the moons of Jupiter on January 7, 1610 through a ... thought he saw three stars near Jupiter, strung out in a line through the planet. ... After a week, Galileo had observed that the four stars never left the vicinity of Jupiter ... were near the planet; and although I believed them to belong to a number of the...
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Uranus - Wikipedia  Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It has the third-largest planetary radius and ... Sir William Herschel observed Uranus on 13 March 1781 from the garden of his ... Herschel notified the Astronomer Royal, Nevil Maskelyne, of his discovery ... Herschel decided to name the object Georgium Sidus (George's Star), or the...
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Thirtieth anniversary of Voyager 2's encounter with Uranus ...  Jan 24, 2016 ... Arriving at Uranus on 24 January 1986, Voyager 2 observed a ... Uranus is four times the diameter of Earth and orbits the Sun every 84 years at a distance of 1.8 billion ... Voyager 2 sent back stunning images of the planet and its moons ... Voyager 2 also discovered 10 new moons (there are 27 total) and...
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Asaph Hall | American astronomer | Britannica.com  American astronomer who discovered the two moons of Mars, Deimos and Phobos, ... There he was chiefly concerned with planetary astronomy, the orbits of ... In 1877 Asaph Hall of the U.S. Naval Observatory discovered that Mars has two...