Talk:Neith (hypothetical moon)

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I think that the Neith observer Louis Lagrange is not the same person with the contemporary, famous mathematician of the same surname Joseph-Louis Lagrange. 79.107.27.86 (talk) 09:01, 10 November 2013 (UTC)George Voutyras

From the article: "In 1761, Lagrange announced that Neith's orbital plane was perpendicular to the ecliptic, and in 1777, he estimated its orbital period as eleven days and three hours. He hoped that the moon would be seen during the transit of Venus across the Sun which was to occur on June 1, 1777."


 * Um, there was no Venus transit on June 1, 1777? The first Venus transit before that day was in 1769, while the next was in 1883.  I know that http://www.solarviews.com/eng/hypothet.htm, which this article used as a source, made the same mistake--I don't know why.


 * Also, according to http://www.solarviews.com/eng/hypothet.htm, it was J.H. Lambert who estimated Neith's orbital period to be 11 days and 3 hours in 1777 (not Lagrange). --Bowlhover 22:52, 8 April 2006 (UTC)