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Jan 01, 0001 Muret, Occitania, France Died on 01 Jan 1865 (aged 1864)
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About Frédéric Petit Astronomer
- Frédéric Petit (Muret, 1810 – Toulouse, 1865) was a French astronomer.
- He was the first director of the Toulouse Observatory, located in Toulouse, France, serving from 1838–1865.
- In 1846 he announced that he had discovered a second moon of Earth.
- The theory was later dismissed by his peers, although the concept of a second smaller satellite of the Earth was used by Jules Verne in his novel From the Earth to the Moon.
