Station

Star system
Station distance
47 Ls
Landing pad
Large
Station type
Starport (Orbis)

Station services
Commodity marketOutfittingRearmRefuelRepairShipyard

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Economy
Industrial
Wealth
Rich
Population
Very large population
Government
Democracy
Allegiance
Independent

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Jeremiah Horrocks

Jeremiah Horrocks (1618 – 3 January 1641), sometimes given as Jeremiah Horrox (the Latinised version that he used on the Emmanuel College register and in his Latin manuscripts), was an English astronomer. He was the first person to demonstrate that the Moon moved around the Earth in an elliptical orbit; and he was the only person to predict the transit of Venus of 1639, an event which he and his friend William Crabtree were the only two people to observe and record.

His early death and the chaos of the English Civil War nearly resulted in the loss to science of his treatise on the transit, Venus in sole visa; but for this and his other work he is acknowledged as one of the founding fathers of British astronomy.



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