Marie-Jeanne de Lalande
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Marie-Jeanne-Amélie Le Francais de Lalande, née Habray (1760 - 1832), was a French astronomer
Astronomer
An astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as planets, stars and galaxies.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using...

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She was the niece of Jerome de Lalande and married astronomer Michel-Jean-Jerome Le Francois de Lalande in 1788.

She calcylated the "Tabres horaires", which was published in Abgrége de navigation (1793).

De Lalande (crater)
De Lalande (crater)
de Lalande is a multiring impact crater on Venus....

was named after her.
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