George Philips Jump
George Philips Bond (May 20th 1825 - February 17th 1865) is a American astronomer .
Jump is the son of the astronomer William Cranch Bond (1789-1859). Its interest goes initially towards nature and the birds but after the death of his brother William Cranch Bond Jr., it feels obliged to follow his father in the field of the Astronomie. It succeeds to him as director of the Harvard College Observatory in 1859 until its death. He is the cousin of Edward Singleton Holden first director of the Observatoire Lick.
He takes the first photography of a star in 1850 (Véga) and of a star doubles, Mizar in 1857. It suggests that photography can be used to measure the Magnitude connect of a star.
He discovers many Comet S and calculates their orbits. He studies Saturn and the Nébuleuse of Orion. He and his/her father discovers the the moon of Saturn Hypérion in 1848, independently discovered by William Lassell. He also Co-discovers with his father the Anneau C of Saturn.
He also works on a topographic survey of the White Mountains in the New Hampshire.
Jump dies of the Tuberculose.
Rewards
- Gold medal of Royal Astronomical Society in 1865,
- Three mountains in the White Mountains bear her name, as well as a crater on the the Moon and another on Mars,
- the Albédo of Jump.
External bonds
- MNRAS ''' 9 ''' (1848) 1: the discovery of Hypérion
- note for its gold medal of the SHORT-NAP CLOTH
- Advertisement of its death
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