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sun and moon to remote rings encircling the equator of
slowly that it was thought to
galaxies (of which he Uranus. Four more rings were
be a great distance from the
discovered hundreds), and discovered in January 1986
sun, and comets are only
papers flooded from his pen during the exploratory flight of
normally visible in the
until his death in 1822. Voyager 22, In addition to its
immediate vicinity of the sun.
rings, Uranus has 15 satellites
Among these there was one As its orbit came to be worked
('moons'), the last 10
sent to the Royal Society in out the truth dawned that it
discovered by Voyager 2 on
1781, entitled An Account of a was a new planet far beyond
the same flight; all revolve
Comet. In his own words: Saturn's realm, and that the
about its equator and move
'reviewer of the heavens' had
with the planet in an
stumbled across an
On Tuesday the 13th of
east west direction. The two
unprecedented prize. Herschel
March, between ten and
largest moons, Titania and
wanted to call it georgium
eleven in the evening,
Oberon, were discovered by
sidus (Star of George) in
while I was examining the
Herschel in 1787. The next
honour of his royal patron
small stars in the
two, Umbriel and Ariel, were
King George III of Great
neighbourhood of H
discovery of a new planet, mind, and deep inside he was
Someone once put forward an found in 1851 by the British
Britain. The planet was later
Geminorum, I perceived
Uranus, in 1781. conscious that music was not
attractive though unlikely astronomer William Lassell.
for a time called Herschel in
one that appeared visibly
his destiny; he therefore read
theory. Throughout the Earth's Herschel was an Miranda, thought before 1986
honour of its discoverer. The
larger than the rest; being
widely in science and the arts,
annual revolution around the extraordinary man  no other to be the innermost moon, was
name Uranus, which was first
struck with its uncommon
but not until 1772 did he come
sun there is one point of space astronomer has ever covered discovered in 1948 by the
proposed by the German
magnitude, I compared it to
across a book on astronomy.
always hidden from our eyes. so vast a field of work  and American astronomer Gerard
astronomer Johann Elert Bode,
H Geminorum and the
He was then 34, middle-aged
This point is the opposite part his career deserves study. He Peter Kuiper.
was in use by the late 19th
small star in the quartile
by the standards of the time,
of the Earth's orbit, which is was born in Hanover in
century.
between Auriga and
but without hesitation he
always hidden by the sun. Germany in 1738, left the
embarked on his new career,
Could there be another planet German army in 1757, and
financing it by his professional
there, essentially similar to our arrived in England the same
work as a musician. He spent Glossary:
own, but always invisible? year with no money but quite
years mastering the art of
exceptional music ability. He
If a space probe today sent
'occultation in astronomy, when one object passes in front of another and hides the second from view,
telescope construction, and
played the violin and oboe and
back evidence that such a
especially, for example, when the moon comes between an observer and a star or planet
even by present-day standards
at one time was organist in the
world existed it would cause
2
Voyager 2 an unmanned spacecraft sent on a voyage past Saturn, Uranus and Jupiter in 1986; during
his instruments are
Octagon Chapel in the city of
not much more sensation than
which it sent back information about these planets to scientists on earth
comparable with the best.
Bath. Herschel's was an active
Sir William Herschel's
Questions 27-31
Questions 32-36
Complete the table below. Do the following statements reflect the claims of the writer of the Reading Passage?
Write a date for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 27-31 on your answer sheet. In boxes 32-36 on your answer sheet write
YES if the statement reflects the claims of the writer
Event Date
NO if the statement contradicts the writer
NOT GIVEN if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this
Example Answer
William Herschel was born 1738
Example Answer
Herschel was multi-talented YES [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]