Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (/ˈɔːlbərz/; German: [ˈɔlbɐs]; 11 October 1758 – 2 March 1840) was a German astronomer. He found a convenient method of...

the German amateur astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers, who described it in 1823, but Harrison shows convincingly that Olbers was far from the first to pose...

Yoshida (2004-07-31). "13P/Olbers". Seiichi Yoshida's Comet Catalog. Retrieved 2010-02-24. "Horizons Batch for 13P/Olbers (90000226) for March 2094" (Perihelion...

kilometres (326 mi). It was discovered by the German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers on 29 March 1807 and is named after Vesta, the virgin goddess...

13P/Olbers, a periodic comet Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers was a German astronomer Olbers (crater), on the Moon Olbers, a 200 km diameter dark albedo...

Carl Schilling, ed. (1900). Briefwechsel zwischen Olbers und Gauss: Erste Abtheilung. Wilhelm Olbers. Sein Leben und seine Werke. Zweiter Band (in German)...

Neptune. When Pallas was discovered by the German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers on 28 March 1802, it was considered to be a planet, as were...

official discovery observation at Simeiz. Honoring Olbers This minor planet was named after Heinrich Olbers (1758–1840), a physician and amateur astronomer...

of the crater midpoint that is closest to Olbers. The following craters have been renamed by the IAU: Olbers A — See Glushko (crater). Andersson, L. E...

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Titius–Bode law predicted there should be a planet. About 15 months later, Heinrich Olbers, a member of the celestial police, discovered a second object in the...

astronomer Heinrich Olbers asserted that if this were true, then the entire night sky would be filled with light and bright as day; this is known as Olbers' paradox...

Ceres and 2 Pallas – the first asteroids – were discovered, astronomer Heinrich Olbers suggested that they were fragments of a much larger hypothetical planet...

comet, or from an internal explosion, burst into pieces? Letter from Heinrich Olbers to William Herschel, May 17, 1802 A now-superseded theory to explain...

observed using telescopes by astronomers Friedrich B. Nicolai and Heinrich Olbers, while Taylor continued his observations until February 20. It was...

(German) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Johann Heinrich von Mädler. Frank J. Tipler, "Olbers's Paradox, the Beginning of Creation, and Johann Mädler...

Friedrich Gauss Francis Wollaston Franz Xaver von Zach Giuseppe Piazzi Heinrich Olbers Jérôme Lalande Johann Elert Bode Tobias Mayer Possible trojans and...

The Olbers-Planetarium is located in the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, Germany, recording about 29.000 visitors a year. It was named after Heinrich Wilhelm...

point in space. The object was hailed as a new planet. Then in 1802, Heinrich Olbers discovered Pallas, a second "planet" at roughly the same distance from...

Within weeks of his discovery, Olbers had an explanation for why there were two planets in the same orbit. [...] Olbers fleshed out the idea in a letter...

Sun and the other (termed an "anomalous tail" by Karl Harding and Heinrich Olbers) pointing towards it. Caroline Herschel recorded an observation of...

astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovered and named the asteroid (2) Pallas, a second object in roughly the same orbit as (1) Ceres. Olbers proposed...

Salaciense Joseph Nunn František Nušl Hermann Oberth Marcus O'Day Heinrich Olbers Friedrich Wilhelm Opelt Otto Moritz Opelt J. Robert Oppenheimer Theodor...

the evening twilight. Both Flaugergues and Olbers were able to recover it in Leo Minor during August, Olbers noting a small but distinct tail, consisting...

potential as a celestial signaling device in a March 25, 1822, letter to Heinrich Olbers, by which he reveals a belief and interest in finding a method to contact...

significant events, listed below. Olbers' paradox is described by the German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers. Cambridge Observatory established...

Oettingen Hans von Ohain Georg Ohm Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers Johannes Orphal Wilhelm Orthmann Gottfried Osann Heinrich Ott Friedrich Paschen Wolfgang...

1801/1 January 1802, Zach (and, independently one night later, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers) recovered Ceres after it was lost during its passage behind...

contradiction was first noted in 1823 by German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, who posed the question of why the night sky was black. The...

structure, he also developed a cosmological theory based on the work of Johann Heinrich Lambert. In the resulting Lambert-Charlier Hierarchical Cosmology, increasingly...