• Thumbnail for Urbain Le Verrier
    Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier (French: [yʁbɛ̃ ʒɑ̃ ʒozɛf lə vɛʁje]; 11 March 1811 – 23 September 1877) was a French astronomer and mathematician who specialized...
    20 KB (2,068 words) - 09:04, 13 September 2024
  • Le Verrier may refer to: Urbain Le Verrier (1811–1877), a French mathematician who specialized in celestial mechanics Max Le Verrier (1891–1973), French...
    488 bytes (86 words) - 21:00, 6 July 2021
  • Thumbnail for Neptune
    Neptune (redirect from Le Verrier's planet)
    from his observations, independently, by John Couch Adams and Urbain Le Verrier. Neptune was subsequently directly observed with a telescope on 23 September...
    147 KB (14,336 words) - 04:09, 11 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Max Le Verrier
    Louis Octave Maxime Le Verrier, known more commonly as Max Le Verrier, also known by the pseudonym Artus (1891–1973) was a French sculptor. He was known...
    5 KB (501 words) - 05:50, 26 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alix Verrier
    Alix Verrier (9 March 1931 – 11 October 2024) was a Haitian Roman Catholic prelate. He served as Bishop of Les Cayes from 1988 to 2009. Verrier died in...
    4 KB (63 words) - 06:48, 14 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rings of Neptune
    after astronomers who contributed important work on the planet: Galle, Le Verrier, Lassell, Arago, and Adams. Neptune also has a faint unnamed ring coincident...
    34 KB (3,763 words) - 12:55, 25 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Le Verrier (lunar crater)
    Le Verrier is a small lunar impact crater located in the northern part of the Mare Imbrium. It was named after French mathematician and astronomer Urbain...
    6 KB (397 words) - 05:30, 19 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for Vulcan (hypothetical planet)
    existence was bolstered by the support of the French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier, who had predicted the existence of Neptune using disturbances in the...
    23 KB (2,933 words) - 02:57, 16 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Discovery of Neptune
    predicted before it was directly observed. With a prediction by Urbain Le Verrier, telescopic observations confirming the existence of a major planet were...
    43 KB (5,228 words) - 15:48, 23 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Faddeev–LeVerrier algorithm
    In mathematics (linear algebra), the Faddeev–LeVerrier algorithm is a recursive method to calculate the coefficients of the characteristic polynomial...
    12 KB (2,473 words) - 21:43, 22 June 2024
  • Verrier is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Sarah Verrier (born 2002), Australian rules footballer Urbain Le Verrier...
    324 bytes (77 words) - 03:47, 1 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for Johann Gottfried Galle
    person to view the planet Neptune and know what he was looking at. Urbain Le Verrier had predicted the existence and position of Neptune, and sent the coordinates...
    10 KB (981 words) - 15:37, 23 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Couch Adams
    unknown to each other, the same calculations were made by Urbain Le Verrier. Le Verrier would send his coordinates to Berlin Observatory astronomer Johann...
    36 KB (4,172 words) - 01:51, 5 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
    many felt an award should jointly be made to John Couch Adams and Urbain Le Verrier. A controversy arose and no award was made in 1847. The controversy was...
    28 KB (915 words) - 13:57, 23 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Scientific method
    general relativity: U. Le Verrier (1859), (in French), "Lettre de M. Le Verrier à M. Faye sur la théorie de Mercure et sur le mouvement du périhélie de...
    196 KB (23,063 words) - 00:46, 16 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Planets beyond Neptune
    raised an objection to Le Verrier's calculations, claiming that Neptune's observed mass was smaller and its orbit larger than Le Verrier had initially predicted...
    76 KB (9,304 words) - 04:13, 16 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Great Dark Spot
    The Daily Galaxy. 2021-08-29. Retrieved 2022-05-01. "Urbain-Jean-Joseph Le Verrier | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2022-05-01. "Dark spot on...
    16 KB (1,627 words) - 07:45, 12 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Curved spacetime
    Relativity". arXiv:gr-qc/9712019. Le Verrier, Urbain (1859). "Lettre de M. Le Verrier à M. Faye sur la théorie de Mercure et sur le mouvement du périhélie de...
    45 KB (5,646 words) - 14:23, 30 September 2024
  • have occurred. When communication with Le Verrier is lost, a rescue ship is dispatched from Triton. Aboard Le Verrier, the four soldiers, Nagata, Chopra,...
    13 KB (1,217 words) - 21:20, 10 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Paris Observatory
    astrophysique". www.obspm.fr. Retrieved 2020-05-09. Lequeux, James (2013-03-15). Le Verrier—Magnificent and Detestable Astronomer. Springer Science & Business Media...
    29 KB (2,961 words) - 16:28, 5 October 2024
  • archaeologist Philippe Léotard (1940–2001), teacher, actor, poet, singer Urbain Le Verrier (1811–1877), astronomer and mathematician André Lhote (1885–1962), painter...
    19 KB (2,064 words) - 09:27, 29 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of gravitational theory
    Calculations by John Couch Adams and Urbain Le Verrier both predicted the general position of the planet. In 1846, Le Verrier sent his position to Johann Gottfried...
    91 KB (10,898 words) - 15:34, 4 October 2024
  • first recognized in 1859 as a problem in celestial mechanics, by Urbain Le Verrier. His re-analysis of available timed observations of transits of Mercury...
    103 KB (12,444 words) - 00:19, 24 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mercury (planet)
    PMID 19516336. S2CID 4416436. Le Verrier, Urbain (1859). "Lettre de M. Le Verrier à M. Faye sur la théorie de Mercure et sur le mouvement du périhélie de...
    155 KB (15,913 words) - 09:36, 13 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Helicon (crater)
    mountain-ringed bay on the mare. Just to the east is the slightly smaller crater Le Verrier. Helicon is a nearly circular formation with inner walls that curve down...
    6 KB (427 words) - 21:22, 30 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of the 72 names on the Eiffel Tower
    doi:10.1061/41032(344)1. ISBN 978-0-7844-1032-5. Barral, Georges (1892). Le Panthéon scientifique de la tour Eiffel: histoire des origines de la construction...
    17 KB (617 words) - 14:07, 15 October 2024
  • gravitation was flawed, however, astronomers John Couch Adams as well as Urbain Le Verrier independently predicted a new planet, eventually known as Neptune, and...
    8 KB (1,092 words) - 08:04, 12 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for French submarine Le Verrier
    Le Verrier was one of 16 Brumaire-class submarines built for the French Navy during the 1910s. Couhat, Jean Labayle (1974). French Warships of World War...
    3 KB (127 words) - 21:33, 11 September 2022
  • Thumbnail for Henri-Alexandre Deslandres
    advice was sternly rejected by director of the Paris Observatory Urbain Le Verrier and the French government awarded Janssen a grant to establish an astrophysical...
    8 KB (596 words) - 08:56, 13 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of craters on Mars: H–N
    Arabia place name WGPSN Le Verrier 38°00′S 342°54′W / 38.0°S 342.9°W / -38.0; -342.9 (Le Verrier) 140.0 1973 Urbain Le Verrier WGPSN Lebu 20°30′S 19°30′W...
    56 KB (274 words) - 17:51, 3 December 2023