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Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi and List of minor planets named after people

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Difference between Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi and List of minor planets named after people

Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi vs. List of minor planets named after people

'Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (عبدالرحمن صوفی (December 7, 903 in Rey, Iran – May 25, 986 in Shiraz, Iran) was a Persian astronomer also known as 'Abd ar-Rahman as-Sufi, 'Abd al-Rahman Abu al-Husayn, 'Abdul Rahman Sufi, or 'Abdurrahman Sufi and, historically, in the West as Azophi and Azophi Arabus. The lunar crater Azophi and the minor planet 12621 Alsufi are named after him. Al-Sufi published his famous Book of Fixed Stars in 964, describing much of his work, both in textual descriptions and pictures. Al-Biruni reports that his work on the ecliptic was carried out in Shiraz. He lived at the Buyid court in Isfahan. This is a list of minor planets named after people, both real and fictional.

Similarities between Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi and List of minor planets named after people

Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi and List of minor planets named after people have 4 things in common (in Unionpedia): Al-Biruni, Ferdinand Magellan, Ptolemy, 12621 Alsufi.

Al-Biruni

Abū Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Al-Bīrūnī (Chorasmian/ابوریحان بیرونی Abū Rayḥān Bērōnī; New Persian: Abū Rayḥān Bīrūnī) (973–1050), known as Al-Biruni (البيروني) in English, was an IranianD.J. Boilot, "Al-Biruni (Beruni), Abu'l Rayhan Muhammad b. Ahmad", in Encyclopaedia of Islam (Leiden), New Ed., vol.1:1236–1238.

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Ferdinand Magellan

Ferdinand Magellan (or; Fernão de Magalhães,; Fernando de Magallanes,; c. 1480 – 27 April 1521) was a Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522, resulting in the first circumnavigation of the Earth, completed by Juan Sebastián Elcano.

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Ptolemy

Claudius Ptolemy (Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαῖος, Klaúdios Ptolemaîos; Claudius Ptolemaeus) was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology.

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12621 Alsufi

12621 Alsufi, provisionally designated, is a carbonaceous Themistian asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 7 kilometers in diameter.

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Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi and List of minor planets named after people Comparison

Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi has 56 relations, while List of minor planets named after people has 1722. As they have in common 4, the Jaccard index is 0.22% = 4 / (56 + 1722).

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