File:Great Comet of 1819 from Kendall.jpg

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Ezra Otis Kendall: C/1819 N1  wikidata:Q4181082 reasonator:Q4181082
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Ezra Otis Kendall  (1818–1899)  wikidata:Q22111623 s:en:Author:Ezra Otis Kendall
 
Ezra Otis Kendall
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E. Otis Kendall
Description American professor, astronomer and mathematician
Date of birth/death 17 May 1818 Edit this at Wikidata 5 January 1899 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Wilmington Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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artist QS:P170,Q22111623
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Great Comet of 1819 (C/1819 N1)
Object type comet / non-periodic comet / near-parabolic comet Edit this at Wikidata
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English: Great Comet of 1819, C/1819 N1, discovered July 1, 1819 by Johann Georg Tralles.
Date 1850
date QS:P571,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Object history
  • 1 July 1819: discovered
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Source/Photographer Uranography; or a Description of the Heavens, facing page 286

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