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In 1882 he was a member of a team sent to the town of Aitken, South Carolina to observe the transit of Venus. Toward the end of the century he replaced Johann Galle as the director of the Observatory at the University of Breslau. 1882 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Jonathan Aitken former Conservative minister William Traven Aitken former Conservative MP father of Jonathan Aitken William Maxwell Aitken, uncle of the above; best known as Baron Beaverbrook Lady Penelope Aitken daughter of the first Baron of Rugby Lolicia Aitken Maria Aitken actress Robert Aitken, His Bible, sometimes referred to as... State nickname: Palmetto State Other U.S. States Capital Columbia Largest city Columbia Governor Mark Sanford Official languages English Area 82,965 km² (40th)  - Land 78,051 km²  - Water 4,915 km² (6%) Population (2000)  - Population {{{2000Pop}}} (26th)  - Density 51. ... The 2004 transit of Venus A transit of Venus across the Sun takes place when the planet Venus passes directly between the Sun and the Earth, obscuring a small portion of the Suns disc. ... Johann Gottfried Galle (June 9, 1812 – July 10, 1910) was a German astronomer at the Berlin Observatory who, with help from Urbain Le Verrier, sighted Neptune on September 23, 1846. ... Categories: Stub | Astronomical observatories ... WrocÅ‚aw, ( [:vrɔʦwaf]), German Breslau, Czech Vratislav, Latin Wratislavia; many Polish documents in English use the spelling Wroclaw) is the capital of Silesia in southwestern Poland, situated on the Oder River (Odra). ...

He is most noted for his measurements of features near the lunar limbs. He published a popular book about the Moon in 1906 called Der Mond. In this work Julius named some lunar mares along the limb the Mare Orientale, Mare Autumni and Mare Veris. The later two were later renamed to the Lacus Autumni and Lacus Veris. Lunar is an adjective that means having to do with or pertaining to the Moon, or to moons in general. ... Crust composition Oxygen 43% Silicon 21% Aluminium 10% Calcium 9% Iron 9% Magnesium 5% Titanium 2% Nickel 0. ... See also: 1905 in literature, other events of 1906, 1907 in literature, list of years in literature. ... The Lunar maria (singular: mare, pronounced MAH-ray) are large, dark, basaltic plains on Earths Moon, formed by ancient basaltic flood eruptions caused by extremely large meteoroid impacts. ... 1967 photograph made by NASAs Lunar Orbiter 4 Like a target ring bulls-eye, the lunar mare Mare Orientale (the eastern sea) is one of the most striking large scale lunar features. ...

Bibliography

• Die Figur des Mondes, 1899, Konigsberg.
• Der Mond, 1906, Leipzig.
• Die Randlandschaften des Mondes, 1913, Halle.

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Honors

• Franz crater on the Moon is named for him.