Word: uranus
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...planets are Mercury, Venus, the Earth. Mars, Jupiter and Saturn and Uranus and Neptune. Uranus was discovered by Herschel, and Neptune was discovered by references to a point obtained by calculation of irregularities in the motion of Uranus...
...remarkable in that it rises in the west, its motion being very rapid. Jupiter has five satellites of which one was discovered last summer by Prof. Barnard of the Lick Observatory. The velocity of light was first determined by observation of the eclipses of the satellites of Jupiter, Uranus has four satellites and Neptune has one which is remarkable as having a retrograde motion...