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Encke was first recorded by Pierre Méchain on 17 January 1786, but it was not recognized as a periodic comet until 1819 when its orbit was computed by Johann Franz Encke. Like Halley's Comet , it is unusual in its being named after the calculator of its orbit rather than its discoverer.
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Encke’s Comet, faint comet having the shortest orbital period (about 3.3 years) of any known; it was also only the second comet (after Halley’s) to have its period established. The comet was first observed in 1786 by French astronomer Pierre Méchain. In 1819 German astronomer Johann Franz Encke.
Johann Franz Encke (September 23, 1791 – August 26, 1865) was a German astronomer, was born at Hamburg. Encke studied mathematics and astronomy from 1811 at the University of Göttingen under Carl Friedrich Gauss; but he enlisted in the Hanseatic Legion for the campaign of 1813–1814, and became lieutenant of artillery in the Prussian ...
Johann Franz Encke was born in 1791 in Hamburg, Germany. In 1811, Encke began his studies of mathematics in Goettingen as a pupil of C.F. Gauss. In May 1816 he moved to Seeberg to work as observer at the observatory there. In 1822 he was promoted Director of that observatory and in 1825 followed a call to be the Director of the Observatory at ...
Johann Franz Encke (23 September 1791 – 26 August 1865) was a German astronomer. Among his activities, he worked on the calculation of the periods of comets and asteroids, measured the distance from the earth to the sun, and made observations of the planet Saturn. Encke was born in Hamburg, where his father was a clergyman at the Jakobskirche. He was the youngest of eight children - when his ...
Johann Franz Encke (23. září 1791 – 26. srpna 1865) byl německý astronom narozený v Hamburku. Život. Od roku 1811 studoval matematiku a astronomii na univerzitě v Göttingenu pod vedením Carla Friedricha Gausse, ale mezi roky 1813–1814 narukoval do Hanzovní ligy. Později, v roce 1815 se stal poručíkem v Pruské armádě.
