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John Russell Hind

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John Russell Hind was an English astronomer associated with George Bishop's observatory in London during the nineteenth century. He discovered ten asteroids, including Iris in 1847, and his work also included observations of comets and other celestial objects. Hind represents the period when astronomers used dedicated observatories and repeated positional measurements to find and track small bodies in the Solar System.

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