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- proper noun astronomy, obsolete The planet
Neptune .
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An amateur astronomer named Edmond Modeste Lescarbault announced that he had seen Le Verrier's Vulcan transiting the sun earlier that year, and Le Verrier used Lescarbault's data to calculate Vulcan's orbit.
Archive 2009-07-01 Johnny Pez 2009
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Le Verrier tentatively named this undiscovered planet Vulcan, and his standing as the Big Scientist of his time meant that other astronomers immediately began searching the skies near the sun for it.
Archive 2009-07-01 Johnny Pez 2009
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An amateur astronomer named Edmond Modeste Lescarbault announced that he had seen Le Verrier's Vulcan transiting the sun earlier that year, and Le Verrier used Lescarbault's data to calculate Vulcan's orbit.
"Vulcan's Workshop" by Harl Vincent Johnny Pez 2009
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Again, Le Verrier decided that these anomolies were due to an undiscovered planet, this time one that orbited closer to the sun than Mercury.
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Again, Le Verrier decided that these anomolies were due to an undiscovered planet, this time one that orbited closer to the sun than Mercury.
"Vulcan's Workshop" by Harl Vincent Johnny Pez 2009
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By 1859, Le Verrier had completed his calculations of the orbit of Mercury, and again they showed certain periodic anomolies.
"Vulcan's Workshop" by Harl Vincent Johnny Pez 2009
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Le Verrier tentatively named this undiscovered planet Vulcan, and his standing as the Big Scientist of his time meant that other astronomers immediately began searching the skies near the sun for it.
"Vulcan's Workshop" by Harl Vincent Johnny Pez 2009
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Le Verrier and an English undergraduate, John Couch Adams, independently took up the task of identifying and locating this something based only on its influence on Uranus.
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This discovery led to Le Verrier becoming the Big Scientist of his era, with all the intellectual heft that comes with such a position.
"Vulcan's Workshop" by Harl Vincent Johnny Pez 2009
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This discovery led to Le Verrier becoming the Big Scientist of his era, with all the intellectual heft that comes with such a position.
Archive 2009-07-01 Johnny Pez 2009
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