
Frédéric Petit (
Muret, 1810 –
Toulouse, 1865) was a French
astronomer. He was the first director of the
Toulouse Observatory, located in
Toulouse, France, serving from 1838 to 1865. In 1846 he announced that he had
discovered a second moon of
Earth.
The theory was later dismissed by his peers, although the concept of a second smaller satellite of the Earth was used by
Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne (;''Longman Pronunciation Dictionary''. ; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the ''Voyages extraor ...
in his novel ''
From the Earth to the Moon''.
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1810 births
1865 deaths
19th-century French astronomers
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