George Phillips Bond | American astronomer | Britannica (original) (raw)

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association with William Bond

• In William Cranch Bond
  …astronomer who, with his son George Phillips Bond (1825–65), discovered Hyperion, the eighth satellite of Saturn, and an inner ring called Ring C, or the Crepe Ring. They also took some of the first recognizable photographs of celestial objects.
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rivalry with Lassell

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  In William Lassell
  …by William Bond and George Bond).
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study of albedo

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  In albedo
  …named for the American astronomer George P. Bond, who in 1861 published a comparison of the brightness of the Sun, the Moon, and Jupiter.) The value of Bond albedo depends on the spectrum of the incident radiation because such albedo is defined over the entire range of wavelengths. Earth-orbiting satellites…
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