Born Oct. 23, 1893, in Estonia, Ernest Opik was based at the Astronomical Observatory in Tartu from 1921-1944. It was there in the 1920s that he began to research meteors and comets, their frequencies, and their speeds. In 1932, he proposed a reservoir of long-period comets that formed a large cloud, orbiting the Sun atContinue reading "Oct. 23, 1893: Birth of Ernest Opik" The post Oct. 23, 1893: Birth of Ernest Opik appeared first on…
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