Faster access than browser!
54 relations: Albedo, Alpha Delphini, Apparent magnitude, Asteroid, Asteroid belt, Astronomer, Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte, Astronomy, Barnaba Oriani, Beta Delphini, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Catholic Church, Ceres (dwarf planet), Ceres (mythology), Charles Piazzi Smyth, Comet, Costantino Corti, Cremona, Dwarf planet, Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies, Friedrich Bessel, Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Hubble Space Telescope, Impact crater, Jesse Ramsden, Jupiter, Lalande Prize, List of Catholic clergy scientists, Mu Cephei, Naples, Niccolò Cacciatore, Orbit, Palermo, Palermo Astronomical Observatory, Piazzi (crater), Planet, Ponte in Valtellina, Ravenna, Roman mythology, Sant'Andrea della Valle, Sicily, Springer Science+Business Media, Star, Sun, Theatines, Titius–Bode law, Turin, University of Arizona Press, University of Malta, University of Palermo, ..., William Henry Smyth, William Herschel, 1000 Piazzia, 61 Cygni. Expand index (4 more) »
Albedo
Albedo (albedo, meaning "whiteness") is the measure of the diffuse reflection of solar radiation out of the total solar radiation received by an astronomical body (e.g. a planet like Earth).
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Albedo · See more »
Alpha Delphini
Alpha Delphini (α Delphini, abbreviated Alpha Del, α Del) is a multiple star system in the constellation of Delphinus.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Alpha Delphini · See more »
Apparent magnitude
The apparent magnitude of a celestial object is a number that is a measure of its brightness as seen by an observer on Earth.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Apparent magnitude · See more »
Asteroid
Asteroids are minor planets, especially those of the inner Solar System.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Asteroid · See more »
Asteroid belt
The asteroid belt is the circumstellar disc in the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Asteroid belt · See more »
Astronomer
An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who concentrates their studies on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Astronomer · See more »
Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte
The Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte (italic) is the Neapolitan department of Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (National Institute for Astrophysics, INAF), the most important Italian institution promoting, developing and conducting scientific research in the fields of astronomy, astrophysics, and space science.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte · See more »
Astronomy
Astronomy (from ἀστρονομία) is a natural science that studies celestial objects and phenomena.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Astronomy · See more »
Barnaba Oriani
Barnaba Oriani FRS FRSE (17 July 1752 – 12 November 1832) was an Italian priest, geodesist, astronomer and scientist.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Barnaba Oriani · See more »
Beta Delphini
Beta Delphini (β Delphini, abbreviated Beta Del, β Del) is a binary star in the constellation of Delphinus.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Beta Delphini · See more »
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (Gauß; Carolus Fridericus Gauss; 30 April 177723 February 1855) was a German mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to many fields, including algebra, analysis, astronomy, differential geometry, electrostatics, geodesy, geophysics, magnetic fields, matrix theory, mechanics, number theory, optics and statistics.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Carl Friedrich Gauss · See more »
Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Catholic Church · See more »
Ceres (dwarf planet)
Ceres (minor-planet designation: 1 Ceres) is the largest object in the asteroid belt that lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, slightly closer to Mars' orbit.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Ceres (dwarf planet) · See more »
Ceres (mythology)
In ancient Roman religion, Ceres (Cerēs) was a goddess of agriculture, grain crops, fertility and motherly relationships.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Ceres (mythology) · See more »
Charles Piazzi Smyth
Charles Piazzi Smyth (3 January 1819 – 21 February 1900) was an English astronomer who was Astronomer Royal for Scotland from 1846 to 1888; he is known for many innovations in astronomy and his pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Charles Piazzi Smyth · See more »
Comet
A comet is an icy small Solar System body that, when passing close to the Sun, warms and begins to release gases, a process called outgassing.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Comet · See more »
Costantino Corti
Costantino Corti (1823/24–1873) was a Milanese sculptor who exhibited at Brera and in Florence, London, and Paris.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Costantino Corti · See more »
Cremona
Cremona is a city and comune in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left bank of the Po River in the middle of the Pianura Padana (Po Valley).
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Cremona · See more »
Dwarf planet
A dwarf planet is a planetary-mass object that is neither a planet nor a natural satellite.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Dwarf planet · See more »
Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies
Ferdinand I (12 January 1751 – 4 January 1825), was the King of the Two Sicilies from 1816, after his restoration following victory in the Napoleonic Wars.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies · See more »
Friedrich Bessel
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (22 July 1784 – 17 March 1846) was a German astronomer, mathematician, physicist and geodesist.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Friedrich Bessel · See more »
Giovanni Battista Beccaria
Giovanni Battista Beccaria (3 October 1716 – 27 May 1781), Italian physicist, was born at Mondovì, and entered the religious Order of the Pious Schools or Piarists, in 1732, where he studied, and afterward taught, grammar and rhetoric.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Giovanni Battista Beccaria · See more »
Hubble Space Telescope
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Hubble Space Telescope · See more »
Impact crater
An impact crater is an approximately circular depression in the surface of a planet, moon, or other solid body in the Solar System or elsewhere, formed by the hypervelocity impact of a smaller body.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Impact crater · See more »
Jesse Ramsden
Jesse Ramsden FRS FRSE (6 October 1735 – 5 November 1800) was a British mathematician, astronomical and scientific instrument maker.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Jesse Ramsden · See more »
Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Jupiter · See more »
Lalande Prize
The Lalande Prize (French: Prix Lalande) was an award for scientific advances in astronomy, given from 1802 until 1970 by the French Academy of Sciences.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Lalande Prize · See more »
List of Catholic clergy scientists
This is a list of Catholic churchmen throughout history who have made contributions to science.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and List of Catholic clergy scientists · See more »
Mu Cephei
Mu Cephei (μ Cep, μ Cephei), also known as Herschel's Garnet Star, is a red supergiant star in the constellation Cepheus.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Mu Cephei · See more »
Naples
Naples (Napoli, Napule or; Neapolis; lit) is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest municipality in Italy after Rome and Milan.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Naples · See more »
Niccolò Cacciatore
Niccolò Cacciatore (26 January 1770 – 28 January 1841) was an Italian astronomer.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Niccolò Cacciatore · See more »
Orbit
In physics, an orbit is the gravitationally curved trajectory of an object, such as the trajectory of a planet around a star or a natural satellite around a planet.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Orbit · See more »
Palermo
Palermo (Sicilian: Palermu, Panormus, from Πάνορμος, Panormos) is a city of Southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Palermo · See more »
Palermo Astronomical Observatory
The Giuseppe S. Vaiana Astronomical Observatory is an astronomical observatory located in Palermo, Sicily, Italy, housed inside the Palazzo dei Normanni.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Palermo Astronomical Observatory · See more »
Piazzi (crater)
Piazzi is an impact crater that is located near the southwestern limb of the Moon, and is attached to the southeastern rim of the walled plain Lagrange.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Piazzi (crater) · See more »
Planet
A planet is an astronomical body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and has cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Planet · See more »
Ponte in Valtellina
Ponte in Valtellina is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Sondrio in the Italian region Lombardy, located about northeast of Milan and about east of Sondrio.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Ponte in Valtellina · See more »
Ravenna
Ravenna (also locally; Ravèna) is the capital city of the Province of Ravenna, in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Ravenna · See more »
Roman mythology
Roman mythology is the body of traditional stories pertaining to ancient Rome's legendary origins and religious system, as represented in the literature and visual arts of the Romans.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Roman mythology · See more »
Sant'Andrea della Valle
Sant'Andrea della Valle is a minor basilica in the rione of Sant'Eustachio of the city of Rome, Italy.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Sant'Andrea della Valle · See more »
Sicily
Sicily (Sicilia; Sicìlia) is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Sicily · See more »
Springer Science+Business Media
Springer Science+Business Media or Springer, part of Springer Nature since 2015, is a global publishing company that publishes books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Springer Science+Business Media · See more »
Star
A star is type of astronomical object consisting of a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by its own gravity.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Star · See more »
Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Sun · See more »
Theatines
The Theatines or the Congregation of Clerics Regular of the Divine Providence are a religious order of the Catholic Church, with the post-nominal initials "C.R.".
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Theatines · See more »
Titius–Bode law
The Titius–Bode law (sometimes termed just Bode's law) is a hypothesis that the bodies in some orbital systems, including the Sun's, orbit at semi-major axes in a function of planetary sequence.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Titius–Bode law · See more »
Turin
Turin (Torino; Turin) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and Turin · See more »
University of Arizona Press
The University of Arizona Press, a publishing house founded in 1959 as a department of the University of Arizona, is a nonprofit publisher of scholarly and regional books.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and University of Arizona Press · See more »
University of Malta
The University of Malta is the highest educational institution in Malta.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and University of Malta · See more »
University of Palermo
The University of Palermo (Università degli Studi di Palermo) is a university located in Palermo, Italy, and founded in 1806.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and University of Palermo · See more »
William Henry Smyth
Admiral William Henry Smyth KFM DCL FRS FRAS FRGS FSA (21 January 1788 – 8 September 1865) was a Royal Navy officer, hydrographer, astronomer and numismatist.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and William Henry Smyth · See more »
William Herschel
Frederick William Herschel, (Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel; 15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822) was a German-born British astronomer, composer and brother of fellow astronomer Caroline Herschel, with whom he worked.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and William Herschel · See more »
1000 Piazzia
1000 Piazzia, provisional designation, is a dark asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 47 kilometers in diameter.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and 1000 Piazzia · See more »
61 Cygni
61 Cygni Not to be confused with 16 Cygni, a more distant system containing two G-type stars harboring the gas giant planet 16 Cygni Bb.
New!!: Giuseppe Piazzi and 61 Cygni · See more »
Redirects here:
G. Piazzi, Giuseppe Piazzi biography, Giuseppe piazzi, Piazzi, Piazzi, Giuseppe.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Piazzi
