Olbers
Americannoun
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On March 28, 1802, German physician and astronomer Heinrich Olbers discovered Pallas; this was rapidly followed by Juno in 1804 and Vesta in 1807.
From Salon • Apr. 16, 2022
Olbers was able to deduce this simply by asking why it gets dark at night—a question every three-year-old asks.
From Scientific American • Dec. 22, 2017
If Olbers saw the dawn of time, perhaps Fermi and Bostrom have seen the sunset.
From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2015
It was published in 1997, and puts the prime meridian at the centre of Olbers Regio, a dark, circular region 200 kilometres across.
From Nature • Aug. 22, 2012
In fact, various contemporaries of Newton had raised the problem, and the Olbers article was not even the first to contain plausible arguments against it.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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