Olbers is a 6 letter English word.
You can make 129 anagrams from letters in Olbers (belors).
It is a curious fact that, according to Olbers, “no fossil meteoric stones” have ever been discovered.
In 1807 the persevering search of Olbers resulted in the discovery of another, with a very oblique orbit, which Gauss named Vesta.
Olbers at once surmised that these two planets were fragments of a larger one, and kept an eager look out for other fragments.
But while Olbers became a mathematician because he was an astronomer, Encke became an astronomer because he was a mathematician.
Afterward, when the orbits of many asteroids had been investigated, the soundness of Olbers's theory began to be questioned.
A consideration first adverted to by Olbers proves these to originate in our own atmosphere.
The elements of the former are by Olbers; those of the latter by Mechain.
Vesta was discovered by Dr. Olbers, on the 29th of March, 1807.
A daring hypothesis of Olbers's invention provided an exit from the difficulty.
Nevertheless the hypothesis of Olbers has not held its ground.