(person) by liveforever Thu Jul 19 2001 at 23:29:06

German astronomer. Born 1791, died 1865.

The head of the Berlin Observatory from 1825, Encke's name is generally associated with the Encke Division, a gap in the outer ring of Saturn, and with Encke's Comet, the orbit of which he calculated in 1819.

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