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Alexis Bouvard

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is also a semi-rural residential suburb, while Port Bouvard is a major residential development in the same region. All three are located within the city of
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has been named after him when French sailors discovered Western Australia.
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after starting there as a student astronomer in 1793 and working under
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and his hypothesis of the existence of an eighth planet in the
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was subsequently calculated from Bouvard's observations by
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Alexis Bouvard's native farm in Contamines-Montjoie
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Contamines
Duchy of Savoy
Kingdom of Sardinia
astronomy
Paris Observatory

[alɛksibuvaʁ]
astronomer
Uranus
Solar System
Contamines
Duchy of Savoy
comets
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
hypothesise
planet
orbit
Neptune
Urbain Le Verrier
Paris Observatory
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Académie des sciences
Fellow of the Royal Society
Royal Society of Edinburgh
cape
Bouvard
Mandurah

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