Examples of 'encke' in a sentence

Meaning of "encke"

Encke is a verb used in English to describe the action of making changes or adjustments to something, often in reference to a plan or schedule
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  • A surname from German.
  • Johann Franz Encke, a German astronomer, who discovered the Encke Gap in the Rings of Saturn.
  • A comet in Solar System, the second periodic comet discovered, prototype of the Encke-type comet, discovered by Johann Franz Encke
  • An asteroid in Koronian, Solar System, the 9134th asteroid registered, named for German astronomer Johann Franz Encke

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Encke became director of the new observatory.
One of these was called the Encke gap.
Comet encke orbits the sun very tightly.
To the southeast is the crater Encke.
Encke was one of his teachers.
The researchers created detailed computer simulations to test the comet Encke hypothesis.
The rim of Encke is low and somewhat polygonal in shape.
The object is believed to be produced by a fragment from Comet Encke that hit the.
Comet Encke has sometimes been identified as the comet in question.
Earth runs unto the debris zone of Comet Encke every year around this time.
Johann Franz Encke attempted to calculate the orbit but was left with very large errors.
The Taurids are an annual meteor shower associated with the comet Encke.
Comet Encke has the shortest orbital period of any known comet within our solar system.
He used observations of Comet Encke to try estimate the mass of Mercury.
Taurid meteor fireballs are likely pebble sized debris left by Comet Encke.

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To the east lies the crater Encke and to the northeast is Kepler.
Encke accompanied Ezekiel on a visit to the United States.
He earned a doctorate and was an assistant to Johann Franz Encke.
The tiny craterlet Encke N lies across the western rim.
It is named for the astronomer Johann Franz Encke.
The Encke comet.
Cassini image showing Pan orbiting in the Encke Gap.
The Encke minima.
The crater is named after German mathematician and astronomer Johann Franz Encke.
Keeler had in turn discovered and named the Encke Gap in honor of Johann Encke.
Comet Encke is less well known, but no less interesting.
Pan is located within the Encke Gap in Saturn 's rings.
Encke never wanders far from the sun, But other comets have orbits.
They also found a smaller gap between the A and F rings, called the Encke division.
Faithful Comet Encke is one of the shortest-period comets known.
He also suggested in 1978 that the Tunguska event was a fragment of the periodic comet Encke.
The Encke Division was later named in honor of his observations of Saturn 's rings.
Pan in the center of the image, occupying the Encke Gap in Saturn 's rings.
Encke sent his calculations as a note to Gauss, Olbers, and Bessel.
He started working as an assistant to Johann Franz Encke at the Berlin Observatory in 1835.
Encke has the shortest orbit of any known periodic comet, at just 3.3 years.
In 2007 NASA satellites recorded a similar disconnection event for Comet Encke.
Johann Franz Encke ( recognition of periodicity ).
From 1844 he worked at the New Berlin Observatory, whose first director was Encke.
Johann Franz Encke determined a definitive orbit with a period of 70.68 years.
In 1978, Slovak astronomer Ľubor Kresák suggested that the body was a fragment of Comet Encke.
In 1837, Encke described a broad variation in the brightness of the A Ring of Saturn.

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