Lepaute is a small lunar impact crater that is located along the western edge of the Palus Epidemiarum, a minor lunar mare in the southwestern part of...
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or Hortense Lepaute (1723-1788) French astronomer Lepaute (crater) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Lepaute. If an internal...
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Béziers [fr]. The asteroid 7720 Lepaute is named in her honour, as is the lunar crater Lepaute. Nicole-Reine Lepaute was born on 5 January 1723 in the...
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the crater and the person the crater is named for. Where a crater formation has associated satellite craters, these are detailed on the main crater description...
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whose return in that year he had helped Alexis Clairaut and Nicole-Reine Lepaute to calculate. In 1762 Delisle resigned the chair of astronomy in the Collège...
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The following is a list of people whose names were given to craters of the Moon. The list of approved names in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature...
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French mathematicians: Alexis Clairaut, Joseph Lalande, and Nicole-Reine Lepaute, who predicted the date of the comet's 1759 perihelion to within one month's...
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heliometer at the Pic du Midi Observatory MPC · 7718 7720 Lepaute 4559 P-L Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723–1788), a French astronomer and mathematician, who...
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would honor the orbit computer Nicole-Reine Etable de la Briere Hortense Lepaute. JPL · 13116 13117 Pondicherry 1993 TW38 Pondicherry is a city on the Coromandel...
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well liked by his men. Among his crew there were ten scientists: Joseph Lepaute Dagelet (1751–1788), an astronomer and mathematician; Robert de Lamanon...
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John Dollond, a high-precision clock from the French maître Jean-André Lepaute, and a meridian bezel, crafted by Jeremiah Sisson, to better calculate...
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French mathematicians, Alexis Clairaut, Joseph Lalande, and Nicole-Reine Lepaute. The confirmation of the comet's return was the first time anything other...
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