olbers in A Sentence

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    This problem greatly troubled astronomers and became known as"Olbers' Paradox.".

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    Olbers calculated a precise timeframe within which to expect such an event befalling Earth.

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    Fifteen months later, another astronomer named Heinrich Olbers sighted another object in the same region which he dubbed"Pallas.".

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    And so, where Galileo had once spurned the idea of a dead world, the German astronomer Wilhelm Olbers proposed in 1802 that the Mars-Jupiter asteroid belt in fact constitutes the ruins of a shattered planet.

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