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Friedrich Bessel

Friedrich Bessel was a 19th-century German astronomer renowned for his groundbreaking work in astrometry. He accurately...

German 19TH Century Historical Astrometry

8.8 Great

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Dante Lauretta

Dante Lauretta is a prominent American astronomer specializing in asteroid science. He leads the OSIRIS-REx mission, res...

American Current Asteroids Osiris Rex

8.4 Great

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Angelo Secchi

Italian Jesuit priest and astronomer (1818–1878) who devised one of the first stellar spectral classification systems, g...

Italian 19TH Century Historical Stellar Classification

8.0 Great

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Edward Barnard

American astronomer who in 1916 identified Barnard's Star, which holds the record for the highest proper motion of any k...

American 19TH Century Observational Comets

7.9 Good

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Jean-Luc Margot

Jean-Luc Margot is a Belgian-born UCLA planetary astronomer, noted for radar studies of asteroids and the 2007 evidence...

Modern Observational Radar Planetary

7.9 Good

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Giovanni Schiaparelli

Italian astronomer who in 1877 mapped Mars and described linear features he called canali, a term mistranslated as canal...

Italian 19TH Century Planetary Mars

7.7 Good

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Amy Mainzer

Amy Mainzer is an American astronomer specializing in infrared surveys, principal investigator of NEOWISE and NASA's NEO...

Modern Space Planetary Infrared

7.7 Good

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Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers

Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers was a German physician-astronomer who discovered Pallas in 1802 and Vesta in 1807 and f...

Medicine 19TH Century Comets Asteroids

7.7 Good

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John Couch Adams

British mathematician who in 1845 independently predicted the position of Neptune by calculating perturbations in Uranus...

19TH Century British Planetary Celestial Mechanics

7.6 Good

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William Parsons (Lord Rosse)

Irish astronomer who in 1845 completed the 72-inch Leviathan of Parsonstown telescope, then the world's largest, and use...

Telescope 19TH Century Observational Irish

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Annie Russell Maunder

Annie Russell Maunder was an Irish-British solar astronomer who helped create the 1904 butterfly diagram of sunspot lati...

History Photography Solar Nineteenth Century

7.4 Good

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Richard Binzel

Richard Binzel is an American planetary scientist who created the Torino Scale in 1999 to rate asteroid and comet impact...

American Planetary Current Asteroids

7.4 Good

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Asaph Hall

American astronomer who in 1877 discovered the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, using the 26-inch refractor at the...

American 19TH Century Observational Planetary

7.3 Good

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Simon Newcomb

Canadian-American astronomer (1835–1909) who produced precise mathematical tables of solar system body positions that se...

American 19TH Century Planetary Celestial Mechanics

7.2 Good

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Margaret Lindsay Huggins

Margaret Lindsay Huggins was an Irish-born astronomer who pioneered stellar spectroscopy with William Huggins and co-wro...

History Photography Spectroscopy Stellar

7.2 Good

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William Lassell

William Lassell was an English brewer-astronomer who discovered Neptune's moon Triton in 1846, Uranus's Ariel and Umbrie...

19TH Century Planets Telescopes Moons

7.2 Good

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Giuseppe Piazzi

Italian astronomer who on January 1, 1801, discovered Ceres, the first known asteroid and now classified as a dwarf plan...

Italian 19TH Century Observational Asteroids

7.0 Good

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Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers

German astronomer (1758–1840) who discovered asteroids Pallas (1802) and Vesta (1807) and formulated Olbers' paradox on...

German Cosmology 19TH Century Comets

6.8 Fair

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John Russell Hind

John Russell Hind was an English astronomer at George Bishop's observatory who discovered ten asteroids, including Iris...

19TH Century Observational Comets Asteroids

6.7 Fair

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Annibale de Gasparis

Annibale de Gasparis was an Italian astronomer at Naples who discovered nine asteroids between 1849 and 1865, beginning...

Italy 19TH Century Observational Asteroids

6.7 Fair