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May 18, 2018 · Encke, Johann Franz. ( b. Hamburg, Germany, 23 September 1791; d. Spandau [near Berlin], Germany, 28 August 1865) astronomy. The eighth child of a Lutheran preacher, J. Michael Encke, and his wife, M. Elisabeth Misler, Encke displayed an early interest in mathematics but did not enter the University of Göttingen until the autumn of 1811.
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. 1791-1865. German astronomer known for his mathematical work in astronomy, especially on short periodic comets. Following the discovery of a comet with a very short orbiting period around the Sun (3.3 years), Encke developed (in 1819) the mathematical formulae needed to calculate the orbits of this and other short periodic ...
Johann Franz Encke. During the 1700s-1800s, the Germans seemed to have a flair for producing what would be the world’s renowned set of astronomers to have ever lived. One of them is Johann Franz Encke. Born in September 1791, this man of nobility and many awards was not only a mathematician and astronomer, but once in his life, he had also ...
Johann Franz Encke 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.
Died Spandau, (Berlin, Germany), 26 August 1865. Johann Encke was the leading German astronomer of his generation, contributing substantially to celestial mechanics, observation of the Solar System, and the professional development of the German‐speaking astronomical community.
Johann Franz Encke, (born Sept. 23, 1791, Hamburg—died Aug. 26, 1865, Spandau, Ger.), German astronomer who in 1819 established the period of the comet now known by his name - Encke’s Comet.
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