Interesting Neptune facts
The discovery and even the naming of the planet Neptune have a very
interesting story behind it.
These are probably the Neptune facts that you weren’t
aware of before.
Technically speaking, the
very first one who became aware
of...
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Interesting Neptune facts
The discovery and even the naming of the planet Neptune have a very
interesting story behind it.
These are probably the Neptune facts that you weren’t
aware of before.
Technically speaking, the
very first one who became aware
of the planet Neptune’s existence
is the famed ancient astronomer
Galileo.
But the discovery of
Neptune isn’t credited to him
because he misrepresented it in his
findings; instead of a planet he
labeled Neptune as being a star.
The actual discovery of
Neptune wasn’t done in the usual
means that you might be thinking
of; with the use of star charts and a telescope.
The discovery of Neptune was
actually “predicted” using mathematical formulas.
In 1846, a French
mathematician named Urbain Le Verriere calculated that in a specific area in outer
space, a new planet is highly likely to be discovered.
So he got the services of
Johann Gottfried Galle of the Berlin Observatory to search in the area he pointed
to, and sure enough there was t
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