Johann Franz Encke (German pronunciation: [ˈjoːhan ˈfʁants ˈɛŋkə]; 23 September 1791 – 26 August 1865) was a German astronomer. Among his activities, he...

recognized as a periodic comet until 1819 when its orbit was computed by Johann Franz Encke. Like Halley's Comet, it is unusual in its being named after the calculator...

Look up encke in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Encke may refer to: Johann Franz Encke (1791–1865), a nineteenth-century German astronomer Encke (crater)...

mathematician and astronomer Johann Franz Encke. The rim of Encke is low and somewhat polygonal in shape. The tiny craterlet Encke N lies across the western...

Obgleich und indeßen. Der Briefwechsel zwischen Carl Friedrich Gauss und Johann Franz Encke (in German). Remagen: Verlag Kessel. ISBN 978-3945941379. (letters...

In 1825 Johann Franz Encke was appointed director by King Frederick William III of Prussia. With the support of Alexander von Humboldt, Encke got the...

astronomer and discoverer of minor planets. He is sometimes confused with Johann Franz Encke, another German astronomer. Hencke was born in Driesen, Brandenburg...

University of Berlin, gaining his doctorate in 1847. With astronomer Johann Franz Encke and archaeologist Ernst Heinrich Tölken as his academic advisors,...

was their first and only asteroid discovery. The name was chosen by Johann Franz Encke, director of the observatory, and refers to Erato, the Muse of lyric...

be distinguished from them, even by very good telescopes". In 1852 Johann Franz Encke, in the Berliner Astronomisches Jahrbuch, declared the traditional...