Fact 146: What was the name of the French Astronomer who calculated the position of Neptune before it had been discovered or named?
Fact 146: What was the name of the French Astronomer who calculated the position of Neptune before it had been discovered or named?
The answer is Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier who was a French astronomer who started to calculate Neptune's existence in June 1845 until 1846.
Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier who predicted the existence of Neptune and calculated where Neptune was before it was discovered and he was only 1° off form Neptunes actual possession!
He was a French astronomer and mathematician, basically this was done all because he (and other astronomer) observed that the motion of Uranus was unusual and his thought and his explanation for Uranus unusual motion was due to another planet that had not yet been discovered (or observed) and he was right!
