Verrier

Proper noun

Meaning

Verrier (plural Verriers)

A surname.

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Calculations by both John Couch Adams and Urbain Le Verrier predicted the general position of the planet, and Le Verrier's calculations are what led Johann Gottfried Galle to the discovery of Neptune. Source: Internet

As it turned out, predictions from Le Verrier's theory failed to match the observations. citation Le Verrier renewed his work and, in 1859, published a more thorough study of Mercury's motion. Source: Internet

Attempting to explain peculiarities of Mercury's orbit, the 19th-century French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier hypothesized that they were the result of another planet, which he named "Vulcan". Source: Internet

In 1845, Urbain Le Verrier began his own independent research into Uranus's orbit. Source: Internet

By 1843, Le Verrier published his provisional theory on the subject, which would be tested during a transit of Mercury across the face of the Sun in 1843. Source: Internet

Le Verrier postulated that the excess precession could be explained by the presence of a small planet inside the orbit of Mercury, and he proposed the name "Vulcan" for this object. Source: Internet

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