GeoffW1
29-06-2007, 09:17 PM
Hi,
While reading a book on cosmology by Neil Tyson, I learned that the discoverer of Uranus, Sir William Herschel, wanted to name it after his patron, King George III.
So as the book says, we might have been posting here about our observations of Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and George.
Now we have for years had bad jokes about seeing the ring around Uranus, but it might have been different, we could have been reporting on sightings of George's ring instead :doh:
Actually John Flamsteed saw the planet first, but he thought it was a star and named it 34 Tauri.
GeoffW1
While reading a book on cosmology by Neil Tyson, I learned that the discoverer of Uranus, Sir William Herschel, wanted to name it after his patron, King George III.
So as the book says, we might have been posting here about our observations of Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and George.
Now we have for years had bad jokes about seeing the ring around Uranus, but it might have been different, we could have been reporting on sightings of George's ring instead :doh:
Actually John Flamsteed saw the planet first, but he thought it was a star and named it 34 Tauri.
GeoffW1