| 1781 y. |
English astronomer William Herschel led monitoring weak stars of the constellation Gemini, between 10 and 11 pm, he noticed that one of them is clearly larger than the neighboring ones.First, Herschel took the open celestial body of the comet, the absence of the tail of the comet, he explained its motion to the Earth.However, several months later it became clear that this is not a comet, a previously unknown planet in the solar system.
Situated if you count from the Sun, the seventh.By the size of the new planet is the third, after Jupiter and Saturn.Again open celestial body Herschel named the planet in honor of King George who ruled at that time in England, King George III.
However, this name has not caught on, and was accepted a more appropriate name - Uranus.The new name of the planet was in honor of the god of heaven - the son of mother earth goddess Gaea and the father of Saturn.For their discovery of Herschel in the same year was elected a member of the Royal Society and received a doctorate from Oxford University.
And King George III for this discovery Herschel granted an annual pension of 200 pounds. |
|
en |
kz
|
de
|
ru
|
ar
|
cn
|
jp
|
кино
