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I have only seen the calculations described as "laborious". Basically, Leverrier and Adams compared Uranus's measured positions to its calculated positions, and calculated the position of the assumed perturbing body. I think it was a sort regression analysis with maybe a bit of trial-and-error. The calculations were actually in considerable error regarding the orbit of Neptune, but by luck the search was done at a time when the predicted direction was close.

You can get software to calculate planetary positions from JPL: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?ephemerides

2007-08-30 19:22:52 · answer #1 · answered by injanier 7 · 0 0

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