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On this day in 1846 – September 23rd – Neptune was discovered by Johann Galle and his colleague Heinrich Louis d’Arrest at the Berlin Observatory.

Galle had received calculations from Urbain LeVerrier which showed where there might be a new planet, and they found the planet that very night. Eventually, it was named Neptune after the Roman sea god.

Mona Evans
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