John Couch Adams
Couch is one of over 300 mathematicians that have a lunar crater named after them
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When they were not sure what caused the signals they detected, Jocelyn Bell and her college advisor D. Anthony Hewish labeled the signal LGM for Little Green Men. They thought it could possibly be a beacon from an alien source
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The German astronomer Johannes Kepler..
sirius.phy.hr/~dpaar/fizicari/xkepler.html Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahe was born in Denmark in 1546 to a noble family..
starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos... Clyde Tombaugh
Clyde Tombaugh discovered a planet years before he ever attended college..
starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos... Urbain Le Verrier
Le Verrier theorized that there was a second asteroid belt in our solar system. He believed the second belt was between the Sun and Mercury. We now know that this second belt does not exist
starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos... Edwin Hubble
Perhaps more than any other person, Edwin Hubble (1884-1953) expanded our view of the universe.
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Roberta Bondar was the first Canadian woman in space.Ken Money was Spacelab payload operations controller for Roberta Bondar's flight in 1992.
senecac.on.ca/bondar/astronauts.html Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley, was an English astronomer who discovered the proper motion of stars and the periodicity of comets
sirius.phy.hr/~dpaar/fizicari/xhalley.html Ronald McNair Bio
Ronald Ervin McNair, was born on October 21, 1950, in Lake City, South Carolina to Carl and Pearl McNair..
unh.edu/mcnair/r_mcnair.html Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was known to the world as Chandra. The word chandra means "moon" or "luminous" in Sanskrit
starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos... Roberta Bondar Questions and Answers
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