Discovery of Neptune
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Discovery of Neptune
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The planet Neptune was mathematically predicted before it was directly observed. With a prediction by Urbain Le Verrier, telescopic observations confirming the existence of a major planet were made on the night of September 23–24, Autumnal Equinox of 1846, at the Berlin Observatory, by astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle, working from Le Verrier's calculations. It was a sensational moment of 19th-century science, and dramatic confirmation of Newtonian gravitational theory. In François Arago's apt
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1846 discovery of Neptune through mathematically-predicted observation
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_Neptune
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2007-08-29T11:38:43Z
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2024-09-07T15:45:26Z
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