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Astronomers Test

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American, 1855-1916, observations of Mars, prediction of existence of planet, Pluto
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French, 1730-1817, mapped faint unmoving objects in sky which became the first nebula catalogs, a prefix recognizing his contribution by the letter is applied to these objects
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German-born British astronomer, 1738-1822, used his own reflecting telescope, discovered planet Uranus, made catalog of double stars
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English, 1656-1742, famous for work in cometary astronomy, predicted return of comet now named after him, first to make complete observation of transit of Mercury
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Eyptian, 90-168, greatly influenced scientists into the 17th century
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Danish, 1873-1967, work on relationships between color and brightness of stars, greatly developed Leavitt's method for finding stellar distances
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English, 1792-1871, discovered 525 nebulae, pioneered celestial photography and carried out research on photo-active chemicals and wave theory of light
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Ejnar Hertzsprung
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Ptolemy
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Percival Lowell
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Edmund Halley
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Charles Messier
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John Frederick William Herschel
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William Herschel
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American, b. 1934, through books and Tv program popularized astronomy
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Danish, 1546-1601, discovered serious errors in existing astronomical tables, observed new star in Cassiopeia, developed an accurate catalogu of positions of 777 stars
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American, b. 1906, discoveredPluto in 1930
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German, 1571-1630, proved that the planets do not orbit in circles but in ellipses; his First and Second Laws are starting point of Newton's discoveries and of modern astronomy
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Italian astronomer and mathematician, 1564-1642, perfected refracting telescope, convinced of the correctness of the heliocentric theory
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American, 1889-1953, identified some nebulae as independent galaxies, discovered "red shift" and announced a Constant for the expansion of universe
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German, 1787-1826, Founded an optical institute in Munich, improved prisms and telescopes, enabling him to discover the dark lines in the Sun's spectrum, named after him
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Polish, 1473-1543, founder of modern astronomy, wrote De Revolutionibus, proving the sun to be the center of the universe

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