The Czech astronomer Luboš Kohoutek , who left Czechoslovakia the following year , named an asteroid which had been discovered on 22 August 1969 , after Jan Palach ( 1834 Palach ) .
In 1851 he discovered Ariel and Umbriel , two moons of Uranus .
A minor planet 3835 Korolenko , discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh in 1977 is named for him .
The minor planet 3930 Vasilev , discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Zhuravlyova in 1982 is named after him .
Himalia was discovered in 1904 , Elara in 1905 , Pasiphaë in 1908 , Sinope in 1914 , Lysithea and Carme in 1938 , Ananke in 1951 , and Leda in 1974 .
In 1930 Clyde Tombaugh exposed a series of photographic plates centred on δ Gem and discovered Pluto .
Tethys , Dione , Rhea and Iapetus ( the Sidera Lodoicea ) were discovered between 1671 and 1684 by Giovanni Domenico Cassini .
The first two moons to be discovered were Titania and Oberon which were spotted by Sir William Herschel on January 11 , 1787 , six years after he had discovered the planet itself .
Messier 59 and the nearby elliptical galaxy Messier 60 were both discovered by Johann Gottfried Koehler in April 1779 during observations of a comet in the same part of the sky .
Struve also observed satellite s of Uranus ( Ariel and Umbriel , in 1851 ) and of Neptune .
He compiled the Caldwell catalogue of astronomical objects and in 1982 , asteroid 2602 Moore was named in his honour .
The Galilean moons of Jupiter ( Io , Europa , Ganymede and Callisto ) were named by Simon Marius soon after their discovery in 1610 .
In 2006 , it was home to the second brightest supernova in the observable universe , supernova SN 2006gy .
On 11 November 1572 , Tycho observed ( from Herrevad Abbey ) a very bright star , now named SN 1572 , which had unexpectedly appeared in the constellation Cassiopeia .
Callisto is a moon of the planet Jupiter , discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei .
On October 24 , 1922 , he discovered the asteroid 991 McDonalda and on November 14 of the same year , another asteroid 992 Swasey .
Soon , three more asteroids , Pallas ( 1802 ) , Juno ( 1804 ) , and Vesta ( 1807 ) were discovered .
On August 28 , 1877 , a few days after Asaph Hall discovered the moons of Mars Deimos and Phobos , he claimed to have found a third satellite of Mars .
These included 5 Astraea , 53 Kalypso , 187 Lamberta , 453 Tea , 1335 Demoulina and 1858 Lobachevskij , and comet Encke .
In 1987 , the Aymestrey burial , an Early Bronze Age , beaker cist , was discovered during gravel working .
A minor planet 2862 Vavilov discovered in 1977 by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh is named after him and his brother Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov .
When William Herschel discovered Uranus on 13 March 1781 it was located near η Gem .
The name has been adapted as an asteroid ( 343 Ostara , 1892 by Max Wolf ) , and a date on the Wicca n Wheel of the Year ( Ostara , 21 March ) .
The long road from planethood to reconsideration undergone by Ceres is mirrored in the story of Pluto , which was named a planet soon after its discovery by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930 .
With his colleague Kazuro Watanabe he discovered 22 asteroid s between 1989 and 1991 , including the asteroid 4644 Oumu ( 1990 SR3 ) in 1990 .
It was named after Paolo Maffei , who discovered it and the neighboring Maffei 2 in 1967 via their infrared emissions .
Shkodrov discovered a number of asteroid s , including the Apollo asteroid 4486 Mithra , which he and Eric Elst discovered on 22 September 1987 .
As the senior physician responsible for the mental observation ward at the Central Middlesex Hospital he described and named Munchausen syndrome in a 1951 article in The Lancet .
Umbriel is a moon of Uranus discovered together with Ariel on , 1851 , by William Lassell .
In 1878 , erbium ores were found to contain the oxides of holmium and thulium .
The arrival of the Voyager spacecraft at Saturn in 1980 1981 resulted in the discovery of three additional moons — Atlas , Prometheus and Pandora , bringing the total to 17 .
This is the telescope that produced the images leading to the discovery of 50000 Quaoar in 2002 , and 90377 Sedna in 2003 ( published 2004 ) and the dwarf planet Eris .
A crater on Mercury was named after him in 1979 , and a minor planet discovered in 1981 by Lyudmila Karachkina was named 3453 Dostoevsky .
Mars has two tiny natural moons , Phobos and Deimos , discovered in 1877 by Asaph Hall , which orbit very close to the planet and are thought to be captured asteroids .
He discovered the asteroid 42 Isis on May 23 , 1856 , for which he was awarded the Lalande Prize .
Triton was discovered by William Lassell in 1846 , just seventeen days after the discovery of Neptune .
In 1840 a hoard of over 8,000 items ( known as the Cuerdale Hoard ) was found in Cuerdale , Lancashire , England .
Subsequently , Abbé Lacaille would list NGC 104 , NGC 4833 , M55 , M69 , and NGC 6397 in his 1751 52 catalogue .
The Dumbbell Nebula ( M27 ) , is a large , bright planetary nebula which was discovered by the French astronomer Charles Messier in 1764 as the very first object of its kind .
Asteroid 4367 Meech , discovered by Schelte J. Bus on March 2 , 1981 , is named in her honor .
This included Astraea ( 1845 ) , Hebe ( 1847 ) , Iris ( 1847 ) , Flora ( 1847 ) , Metis ( 1848 ) , and Hygeia ( 1849 ) ( later spelled Hygiea ) .
The Galilean moons of Jupiter ( Io , Europa , Ganymede , and Callisto ) were named by Simon Marius soon after their discovery in 1610 .
In 2004 , she led the team that discovered the companion star to the white dwarf that resulted in famous supernova SN 1572 , observed among others by Tycho Brahe .
Unlike Mab and Perdita , Uranian satellites also discovered in 2003 , it does not seem to be perturbed .
Eventually , the next two moons , Ariel and Umbriel , were discovered by William Lassell in 1851 .
A minor planet 2286 Fesenkov discovered in 1977 by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh is named after him .
The asteroid 4963 Kanroku discovered on 18 February 1977 by Hiroki Kosai and Kiichirō Furukawa of the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory was named after him .
Charles Messier discovered Messier 58 , along with the elliptical galaxies Messier 59 and Messier 60 , on April 15 , 1779 .
Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei was the first to record an observation of Io on January 8 , 1610 , though Simon Marius may have also observed Io at around the same time .
He worked at observatories in Gotha and at Bothkamp , discovering the asteroid 230 Athamantis at the latter in 1882 .
A minor planet , 2862 Vavilov , discovered in 1977 by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh is named after him and his brother Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov .
In 1930 , the dwarf planet Pluto was discovered about 0 . 5 ° to the east of this star by American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh .
However before the group initiated a search , they were trumped by the discovery of the asteroid Ceres by Giuseppe Piazzi from Palermo in 1801 , at Bodes predicted position .
A minor planet 3148 Grechko discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh in 1979 is named after him .
In 1948 , Gerard Kuiper at the McDonald Observatory discovered the smallest and the last of the five large , spherical moons , Miranda .
On April 28 , 1905 , William H. Pickering , who had seven years earlier discovered Phoebe , announced the discovery of a tenth satellite of Saturn , which he promptly named Themis .
Two more small inner moons , Cupid and Mab , were discovered using the Hubble Space Telescope in 2003 .
The golden horns of Gallehus were two gold en horns , one shorter than the other , discovered in near Tønder in 1639 and 1734 .
The 1922 discovery by Howard Carter and George Herbert of Tutankhamuns nearly intact tomb received worldwide press coverage .
He is credited with the discovery of a then unknown triangle center in 1916 to which John Conway assigned the name Gossard perspector in 1998 .
Carters team opened the tomb of Tutankhamun ( KV62 ) in 1922 , launching the modern era of Egyptology .
Asteroid 2151 Hadwiger , discovered in 1977 by Paul Wild , is named after Hadwiger .
The first NEO discovered by PACS was ( 5496 ) 1973 NA , an Apollo asteroid with an exceptional orbital inclination of 68 ° , the most highly inclined minor planet known until 1999 .
It was the original source of iodine , discovered in 1811 , and was used extensively to treat goitre , a swelling of the thyroid gland related to iodine deficiency .
5 Astraea , discovered 1845 , 24 Themis , discovered 1853 , 99 Dike , discovered 1868 , and 269 Justitia , discovered 1887 .
The modern era in steelmaking began with the introduction of Henry Bessemer s Bessemer process in 1855 , the raw material for which was pig iron .
He investigated emission spectra of heated elements , and discovered caesium ( in 1860 ) and rubidium ( in 1861 ) with the physicist Gustav Kirchhoff .
A minor planet 3558 Shishkin , discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Zhuravlyova in 1978 , is named after him .
Asteroid 6097 was discovered on October 29 , 1991 by Kin Endate and Kazuro Watanabe at Kitami .
In 1906 1907 two more Jupiter trojans were found by fellow German astronomer August Kopff ( 624 Hektor and 617 Patroclus ) .
A minor planet 3408 Shalamov discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh in 1977 is named after him .
A minor planet 3657 Ermolova , discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Zhuravlyova in 1978 is named after her .
e. beyond the astronomy community ) would be described as the great comet of that year , such as the Great Comet of 1680 and Great Comet of 1882 .
Among his discoveries made between 1931 and 1935 at Algiers , he named the minor planets 1237 Geneviève , 1300 Marcelle and 1376 Michelle after his three daughters .
The first known observations and recording of a transit of Venus were made in 1639 by the English astronomer s Jeremiah Horrocks and his friend and correspondent William Crabtree .
In 2003 , Showalter and Jack J. Lissauer discovered two new moons of Uranus ( Mab and Cupid ) in Hubble Space Telescope images .
In 1898 , he discovered the elements krypton , neon , and xenon , and named them after the Greek words ( , hidden ) , ( , new ) , and ( , stranger ) , respectively .
A minor planet 3238 Timresovia discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh in 1975 is named after him .
An example of this is the Cheapside Hoard , the stock of a jeweller hidden in London during the Commonwealth period and not found again until 1912 .
A minor planet , 3149 Okudzhava , discovered by Czech astronomer Zdeňka Vávrová in 1981 is named after him .
A minor planet 3669 Vertinskij , discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina in 1982 is named after him .
Another milestone in orbit determination was Carl Friedrich Gauss assistance in the recovery of the dwarf planet Ceres in 1801 .
From August 19 to 22 of 1989 , Hudson and Steven Ostro observed asteroid 4769 Castalia from the Arecibo Observatory , producing the first direct image of an asteroid .
French astronomer , Pierre Janssen observed the Solar eclipse of 18 August 1868 and discovered helium , from Guntur in Madras State , British India .
A minor planet , 3108 Lyubov , discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Zhuravlyova in 1972 , is named after her .
The tomb of the young king ( KV62 ) was uncovered almost untouched in the Valley of the Kings in West Thebes by Howard Carter on 4 November 1922 .
He later accompanied archaeologist Howard Carter during the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922 .
The asteroid 207 Hedda , discovered by Johann Palisa in 1879 , was named after Winneckes wife Hedwig .
A minor planet 10269 Tusi discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh in 1979 is named after him .
He was a prolific discoverer of asteroid s , discovering 122 in all , from 136 Austria in 1874 to 1073 Gellivara in 1923 .
2 Pallas , named 1802 , 93 Minerva , discovered 1867 , and 881 Athene , discovered 1917 .
In 1684 he used one of his aerial telescopes to find Dione and Tethys , two satellites of Saturn .
A minor planet 2233 Kuznetsov discovered in 1972 by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Zhuravlyova is named after him .
During the 16th century , astronomer Tycho Brahe observed the supernova SN 1572 in the constellation Cassiopeia .
The first conference , held at Lake Como in 1927 , led to the public introduction of the uncertainty principle by Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg .
Callisto was discovered by Galileo in January 1610 , along with three other large Jovian moons — Ganymede , Io , and Europa .
A minor planet 3112 Velimir discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh in 1977 is named after him. ; Long
The minor planet 4343 Tetsuya , discovered by Seiji Ueda and Hiroshi Kaneda in 1988 , was named in his honour .
Ongoing IHO field work in Hadar , Ethiopia , where Lucy was found in 1974 , addresses the evolution and ecology of Australopithecus ( 3 .
Werner Heisenberg s uncertainty principle formulated in 1927 , predict a fundamental limit within which instantaneous position and momentum , or energy and time can be measured .
He served as Egypt s director of antiquities from 1914 until 1936 , and oversaw the 1922 discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings by Howard Carter .
The first observation of gravitational waves on 14 September 2015 was announced by the LIGO and Virgo interferometer collaborations on 11 February 2016 .
The detection of solar neutrino s , and of neutrinos of the SN 1987A supernova in 1987 marked the beginning of neutrino astronomy .
The asteroid 1836 Komarov , discovered in 1971 , was named in the honor of Komarov , as was a crater on the Moon .
He discovered the occurrence of helium in the Earths atmosphere in 1868 during a solar eclipse when he detected a new spectral line in the solar spectrum .
Tennant is best known for his discovery of the elements iridium and osmium , which he found in the residues from the solution of platinum ores in 1803 .
It was the first plutino discovered after Pluto itself , with 1993 RP and ( 15788 ) 1993 SB a day and two days later , respectively .
American astronomer Asaph Hall named a satellite of the planet Mars , Phobos , which he discovered along with the second Mars satellite , Deimos , in 1877 .
Planets b , c , d were announced in 1996 , 1999 , and 1999 respectively .
In 1963 , the asteroid 2104 Toronto is discovered in the David Dunlap Observatory in Richmond Hill and is named after the university .
Triton is the largest moon of the planet Neptune , discovered on October 10 , 1846 , by William Lassell .
Such collisions produced W and Z bosons which could be detected for the first time in 1983 by the UA1 experiment , led by Carlo Rubbia .
A minor planet 3358 Anikushin discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh in 1978 is named after him .
In 1839 Mosander extracted an oxide he called lantana ( see lanthana ) , which was the oxide of the newly discovered element lanthanum , from a mixture of crude cerium nitrate .
In 1811 , a hoard of 26 Early Iron Age bronze Negau helmet s was discovered in the nearby woods .
A minor planet 2126 Gerasimovich discovered in 1970 by Soviet astronomer Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova is also named after him .
In 1905 , via statistical mechanics , Albert Einstein predicted the phenomenon Brownian motion — unexplained since reported in 1827 by botanist Robert Brown .
SN 1572 , or Tychos Nova , was a supernova in the constellation Cassiopeia , one of the few supernovae visible by the naked eye .
In 1781 , Anders Johan Lexell was the first to compute the orbit of Uranus and notice that it had irregularities .
Asaph Hall III ( October 15 , 1829 – November 22 , 1907 ) was an American astronomer who is most famous for having discovered the moons of Mars , Deimos and Phobos , in 1877 .
In 1655 , using a 50 power refracting telescope that he designed himself , Huygens discovered the first of Saturn s moons , Titan .
... that Fort Julien near the mouth of the Nile in Egypt was the place where French soldiers discovered the Rosetta Stone in 1799 ?
Saturns largest moon , Titan , was discovered in 1655 by Christiaan Huygens using a objective lens on a refracting telescope of his own design .
Among the latter are the Trojan asteroid s 2357 Phereclos , 2759 Idomeneus , 2797 Teucer , 2920 Automedon , 3564 Talthybius , 4057 Demophon , and ( 4489 ) 1988 AK .
They are named after the Shergotty meteorite , which fell at Sherghati , India in 1865 .
The minor planet 3010 Ushakov , discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Ivanovna Chernykh in 1978 , is named after him .
1966 Epimetheus , one of the moons of Saturn , was discovered , but was mistaken for Janus .
Dione is a moon of Saturn discovered by Giovanni Cassini in 1684 .
A minor planet 3483 Svetlov discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Ivanovna Chernykh in 1976 is named after him .
A minor planet , 3511 Tsvetaeva , discovered in 1982 by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina , is named after her .
7796 Járacimrman was discovered at the Czech Kleť Observatory on 16 January 1996 by Zdeněk Moravec and was designated 1996 BG .
One of his asteroid discoveries , 139 Juewa was made in Beijing when Watson was there to observe the 1874 transit of Venus .
That he observed the location of Tycho Brahe s supernova of 1572 and found a star there which he estimated to be somewhat dimmer than Jupiters third moon .
Ganymede , a moon of Jupiter , named 1614 and 1036 Ganymed , discovered 1924 , both named for Zeus cupbearer .
The Lion of Knidos was found in 1858 by Pullan as he walked the cliffs near where he was helping Charles Thomas Newton to excavate the ancient Greek city of Knidos .
A minor planet 3723 Voznesenskij , discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh in 1976 , is named after him .
Johan August Arfwedson ( 12 January 1792 – 28 October 1841 ) was a Swedish chemist who discovered the chemical element lithium in 1817 by isolating it as a salt .
He discovered Saturn s ninth moon Phoebe in 1899 from plates taken in 1898 .
A minor planet 3334 Somov discovered by Czech astronomer Antonín Mrkos in 1981 is named after him .
November 9 A supernova , now designated as SN 1572 , is first observed in the constellation Cassiopeia by Cornelius Gemma .
The tomb ( KV62 ) was discovered almost intact on 4 November 1922 in the Valley of the Kings in west Thebes ) by Howard Carter .
Sulfonamide s did not appear until 1935 , and penicillin , discovered in 1928 , was not available as a treatment until 1950 .
Room 307 was where Glenn T. Seaborg and his coworkers identified plutonium as a new element on February 23 , 1941 and as such , is designated a National Historic Landmark .
The asteroid 1446 Sillanpää , discovered on January 26 , 1938 by the renowned Finnish astronomer and physicist Yrjö Väisälä , was named after him .
Titania is the largest moon of Uranus and the eight largest in the solar system which discovered by William Herschel in 1787 .
In 1868 , Norman Lockyer hypothesized that these absorption lines were caused by a new element that he dubbed helium , after the Greek Sun god Helios .
Triton is the largest moon of the planet Neptune , discovered on October 10 , 1846 by William Lassell .
Messier 72 ( also known as M72 or NGC 6981 ) is a globular cluster in the Aquarius constellation discovered by Pierre Méchain on August 29 , 1780 .
He discovered over 700 asteroid s , including the Trojan asteroid s ( 6090 ) 1989 DJ and 65210 Stichius ( the latter with Eric Walter Elst ) .
Zimmerman is mentioned ( as Dr. Zimmerman ) in Book 3 of Isaac Newton s Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica in 1687 ( on p. 505 ) as having observed the Great Comet of 1680 .
Discovery of minor planet s using photographic plates was pioneered by Max Wolf beginning with his discovery of 323 Brucia in 1891 .
Digges attempted to determine the parallax of the 1572 supernova observed by Tycho Brahe , and concluded it had to be beyond the orbit of the Moon .
With the discovery of Pluto in 1930 , astronomers considered the Solar System to have nine planet s , along with thousands of smaller bodies such as asteroids and comets .