1759 Calculated the return of Halley's Comet

Lepaute worked with two contemporary French astronomers, Alexis Clairaut and Jerome Lalande, to calculate the date of the return of Halley's Comet. Halley himself had calculated its return within a 2-year window; Lepaute and her colleagues were able to narrow that to a two-month window. She continued to work with Lalande on further astronomical calculations, including the exact date of a 1764 solar eclipse.

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