biography
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| (1829–1907)
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| biography:
| Astronomer, born in Goshen, Connecticut, USA. He was professor of mathematics at the US Naval Observatory (1863–91), and professor of astronomy at Harvard (1896–1901). In 1877 he discovered the two satellites of Mars, calculated their orbits, and named them Deimos and Phobos. |
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