Johann Franz Encke

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The head of the Berlin Observatory from 1825, Encke's name is generally associated with the Encke Division, a gap in the outer ring of Saturn, and with Encke's Comet, the orbit of which he calculated in 1819.

The 25 brightest stars of the night sky	1519	Ralph	Ole Christensen Rømer
Eratosthenes	Arthur Eddington	William Cranch Bond	Giordano Bruno
Pan	Encke's Comet	German	Saturn
comet	orbit	Astronomer

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