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Ariel es el cuarto satélite más grande de Urano y el segundo en proximidad de los satélites principales. Fue descubierto en 1851 por William Lassell y nombrado por un personaje de dos diferentes obras de la literatura inglesa. Se conoce el 35 % de la superficie del satélite por el sobrevuelo de la sonda Voyager 2 en 1986, el único ...
Discovery William Lassell discovered Hyperion in 1848. That same year William Cranch Bond, with his son George Phillips Bond, independently discovered the moon. All three men are jointly credited with the discovery. Overview Hyperion is the largest of Saturn’s irregular, nonspherical moons. Hyperion’s mean radius is 83.9 miles (135 kilometers), but since Hyperion is rather […]
William Lassell (18 June 1799 – 5 October 1880) was a British astronomer, born in Bolton, Lancashire, England. He died in Maidenhead in 1880. He is known as discoverer of Triton , the largest moon of Neptune , and for his improvements to the reflecting telescope .
29 de dic. de 2020 · LASSELL, WILLIAM (1799–1880), astronomer, was born at Bolton in Lancashire on 18 June 1799. At the age of four or five he amused himself by polishing lenses. After his father's death from fever in 1810 he was sent to school at Rochdale for eighteen months, was apprentice from 1814 to 1821 in a merchant's office in Liverpool, and set up in ...
Vida y Biografía de William Lassell. (Bolton, 1799-Maidenhead, 1880) Astrónomo británico. Autodidacto y constructor de sus instrumentos, en 1846 descubrió el primer satélite de Neptuno, Tritón, y un par de años después, adjuntado con W. Bond, el séptimo satélite de Saturno, Hiperión. Fue asimismo el explorador de los satélites Ariel ...
Discovery Ariel was discovered Oct. 24, 1851 by William Lassell, one of 19th century England’s grand amateur astronomers, who used the fortune he made in the brewery business to finance his telescopes. Overview All of Uranus’ larger moons, including Ariel, are thought to consist mostly of roughly equal amounts of water ice and silicate rock. […]
William Lassell FRS ( Bolton, 18 de juny del 1799 - Maidenhead, 5 d'octubre del 1880 ), [1] va ser un mercant i astrònom anglès . William Lassell va néixer a Bolton i va ser educat a Rochdale després de la mort del seu pare; va ser ensenyat per a mercant des del 1814 al 1821 a Liverpool. Va fer fortuna amb elaboració de cervesa, la qual ...
