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OCR: Galle Johann Gotfried: 1812 1910) German astronomer whose abservations f the ephemerides planets anc comets Halley's Comet in 1835 and twa others) led to roval awards and the discovery of Neptune Ir 1836 Alexander Yon Humboldt visited Galle in Berlin and the twO com- piled the astronom ical data collected over the many vears of that geologist's world travel In 1846, Galle wrate to Ur- bain Leverrier in Paris: and informed him that disturbances in the orbit of Uranus indicated that another planet must exist. Although Galle initiated the hunt or the mystery planet. which was dubbed 'Le Verrier' planet" after the French director of the observatory in Paris who spotted the celestial body the actual location of Neptune tAs simul taneously calculated nier and John Couch Adams working Cambridge a ...