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William Cranch Bond
William Cranch Bond
Born(1789-09-09)September 9, 1789
Falmouth, Maine, U.S.
DiedJanuary 29, 1859(1859-01-29) (aged 69)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Known forHyperion
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy
InstitutionsHarvard College Observatory
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William Cranch Bond (September 9, 1789 – January 29, 1859) was an American astronomer, and the first director of Harvard College Observatory.

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Rings of Saturn

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1675 by Giovanni Domenico Cassini, C in 1850 by William Cranch Bond and his son George Phillips Bond, D in 1933 by Nikolai P. Barabachov and B. Semejkin...

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List of astronomers

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List of minor planets named after people

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1848

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3-foot-plus iron rod being driven through his head. September 16 – William Cranch Bond and William Lassell discover Hyperion, Saturn's moon. September 25 – The...

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Astrophotography

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photograph of a star was a daguerreotype of the star Vega by astronomer William Cranch Bond and daguerreotype photographer and experimenter John Adams Whipple...

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Horace Parnell Tuttle

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telescope, and on a visit to the Harvard Observatory so impressed William Cranch Bond that by 1850 he was hired as an assistant observer. At Harvard Charles...

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1859 in the United States

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compiler (died 1929) January 28 – William H. Prescott, Hispanist historian (born 1796) January 29 – William Cranch Bond, astronomer (born 1789) February...

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Harvard College Observatory

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photographic plates. In 1839, the Harvard Corporation voted to appoint William Cranch Bond, a prominent Boston clockmaker, as "Astronomical Observer to the...

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1789 in the United States

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Governor of Illinois from 1838 to 1842 (died 1852) September 9 – William Cranch Bond, astronomer (died 1859) September 15 – James Fenimore Cooper, novelist...

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1840s

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French astronomer Urbain Le Verrier. September 16, 1848 – William Cranch Bond and William Lassell discover Hyperion, Saturn's moon. The 1840s saw the...

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Comet Donati

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closely studied by the astronomer George Phillips Bond and his father William Cranch Bond. G. P. Bond incorporated these observations and those of many...

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1848 in science

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Geologists and Naturalists, with William Charles Redfield as its first president. September 16 – William Cranch Bond and William Lassell discover Hyperion,...

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Timeline of Solar System astronomy

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1846 – William Lassell discovers Neptune's moon Triton, just seventeen days later of planet's discovery. 1848 – Lassell, William Cranch Bond and George...

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William Costin

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and that "the Constitution knows no distinction of color." Cranch defended the peace-bond law by pointing to certain barriers in the state voting and...

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List of geological features on Hyperion

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Refs Bond-Lassell Dorsum 48°00′N 143°30′W / 48°N 143.5°W / 48; -143.5 (Bond-Lassell) 0 1982 George Phillips Bond, William Cranch Bond and William Lassell...

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Mythology of Benjamin Banneker

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rotation period of 8.3 hours. It was named after William Cranch Bond (1789–1859) and his son George Phillips Bond (1825–1865), both American astronomers and...

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