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* [[Blue Straggler]] | * [[Blue Straggler]] - restaurant in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]] which is famously popular with astronomers. | ||
* [[Blue Straggler (crime fighter)]] - a masked crime fighter who suffers from depression. | |||
* [[Crimes against astronomical constants]] | * [[Crimes against astronomical constants]] | ||
* [[Gnomon algorithm]] | * [[Gnomon algorithm]] | ||
Revision as of 06:09, 19 June 2019
Prof Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn FRS FRSE LLD (19 January 1851 – 18 June 1922) was a Dutch astronomer.
He carried out extensive studies of the Milky Way and was the discoverer of evidence for galactic rotation.
Kapteyn was also among the first to suggest the existence of dark matter using stellar velocities as early as 1922.
In the News
Fiction cross-reference
- Blue Straggler - restaurant in New Minneapolis, Canada which is famously popular with astronomers.
- Blue Straggler (crime fighter) - a masked crime fighter who suffers from depression.
- Crimes against astronomical constants
- Gnomon algorithm
- Gnomon Chronicles
Nonfiction cross-reference
External links:
- Jacobus Kapteyn @ Wikipedia