When in india u find 1000yrs old temples in the name of planets(NAVGRAHA),why it is that we indians study, Galileo is the first person to say that there are nine planet in our solar system
2007-03-04 23:39:41 · 6 answers · asked by Arvind Kumar B 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
No Galileo saw Jupiter and it's moons (4 only) Saturn and some of the others, but pluto (no longer considered a planet) was only discovered in the last century.
2007-03-04 23:47:55 · answer #1 · answered by occluderx 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Five planets---Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, are visible to the naked eye and have been known to all peoples for tens of thousands of years, maybe more. The English names are from the Romans. Uranus is barely visible to the naked eye under superb conditions, but nevertheless was not discovered until the invention of the telescope. It was discovered by the great British astronomer William Herschel in 1781. The discovery of Neptune is more complicated---it was actually seen and recorded by Galileo, but he thought it was a star. Its orbit was not determined until the mid-19th century. Pluto, now a "dwarf planet" was discovered in the 20th century.
2007-03-05 09:37:42 · answer #2 · answered by cosmo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Pluto, for example, - regarded as one of the nine planets until last year - was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh rather recently. There is no way for Galileo to have known anything about Pluto the time he lived!
2007-03-05 17:09:25 · answer #3 · answered by stardom65 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The old peoples had tried with tenacity to understand the Universe?
But they not yet had developed this conscience of the infinite life in the Land of TarcÃsio Brito, where all species also the man have origin of the certainly ancestral hereditary succession, where the pursuing of the life (for the future) results in an arrival to the past of Daily pay-History; e that finishes in return to the gift of Our Historia. I circulate that one infinitely happens again in the Great Atom Universe, finite in its dimension and the infinite in its time. E you! Already it acquitted this conscience, or it prefers to believe other galaxies if finding?
2007-03-05 09:16:12 · answer #4 · answered by britotarcisio 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Galileo did not know about Uranus, Neptune, or Pluto. He did know about the moons of Jupiter, and the phases of Venus. She misunderstood the rings of Saturn.
2007-03-05 07:49:28 · answer #5 · answered by mathematician 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No.The correct answer is Copernicus.
2007-03-05 07:51:36 · answer #6 · answered by nirun b 2 · 0⤊ 6⤋