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worked out the internal stucture of the gas giants
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Rupert Wildt
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first saw the giant red spot in 1664
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r. hooke and j.d. cassini
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discovered galilean satellites in 1610
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Galileo and Marius
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discovered Amalthea (another Jupiter moon) from Lick Obs. in 1892
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Barnard
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discovered Comet Shoemaker - Levy 9 (comet crashed into Jupiter in summer of 1994)
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the shoemakers and David Levy
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many argued the idea that rocks could fall form the sky
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Thomas Jefferson
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the 3 scientists who are credited with the beginning of modern meteor science (meteoritics)
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Peter Simon Pallas
Jean Baptiste Biot Ernst Chladni |
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studies of the Ir layer
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Luis Alvarez (Nobel) and son, Walter
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theorized rings not solid but made of many particles traveling at Keplerian orbital speeds depending on their distance from Saturn
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James Clerk Maxwell
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proved Maxwell's hypothesis that the rings are particles; dopler effect spectra (1888) in Lick Obs.
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James Edward Keeler
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predicted Neptune's location in 1845 using celestial mechanics calculations
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John Couch Adams (English) and Urbain Jean Joseph Le Leverrier (french)
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observed neptune in 1846 immediatly after the prediction was published
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Johann Galle and Heinrich d'Arrest (German)
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founder of Lowell Observatory started the search that led to the discovery of Pluto in 1930
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Percival Lowell
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found "Planet X" in 1930 by taking photographs along the ecliptic with a special telescope/camera and a blank comparator
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Clyde W. Tonbaugh
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discovered charon in 1978
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James Christy
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Showed in 1577 that comets were not part of our atmosphere and were much further away than our Moon by use of the parallax effect
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Tycho Brahe
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Derives the physics of orbital motion in Principia Mathematica
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Isaac Newton
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Convinces Newton to publish Principia and uses the results in it to predict the reappearance of the comet that now bears his name (he does not live to see it)
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Edmund Halley
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dirty snowball
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Fred Whipple
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discovered Uranus in 1781
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Sir William Herschel
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Name “Uranus” proposed by _______; accepted worldwide by 1850
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Johann E. Bode
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________ discovered the first asteroid Ceres in 1801
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Giuseppi Piazzi
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