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Astronomy Trivia
Did You Know:
The Pistol Star is the most luminous star known - 10 million times the power of the Sun and as big as the size of Earth's entire orbit around the Sun.
Did You Also Know:
While most asteroids orbit between Mars and Jupiter, 1983 TB gets as close as 9 million miles from the Sun.
Guillaume le Gentile was perhaps the most unlucky astronomer ever. He went to India to observe a transit of Venus, but was becalmed. Her returned a few years later but was clouded out. He was then stricken with dysentery and came home on a Spanish warship, which lost its mast off the Cape of Good Hope, and got blown off course past the Azores, before limping into Cadiz. He finally got home after nearly 12 years of absence, only to discover he had been declared dead, and his estate had been divided up amongst creditors and relatives. He promptly renounced astronomy and settled down to write his memoirs. Cassini praised Le Gentile's character but considered that "in his sea voyages he had contracted a little unsociability and brusqueness".
When the blank for the large Palomar mirror was being transported, it was encased in armour, in case anyone took a shot at it.
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