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Who was the first one to discover Neptune?

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∙ 11y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

Galileo did record its position but, because Neptune was just entering its retrograde phase, he did not see its orbital motion an so thought it was a star.

It was properly identified by Johann Gottfried Galle in 1846.



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