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Orbit of Mercury

France · Science / Astronomy. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1859

Urbain Le Verrier1859

Science / Astronomy

Le Verrier was the first to report that the slow precession of Mercurys orbit around the Sun could not be completely explained by Newtonian mechanics and perturbations by the known planets

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Urbain Le Verrier

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