Maria Mitchell's Comet

Mary was born Mary Winston in Hampton, Virginia. She was born April 9 1921. Mary was born to Frank Winston and Ella Scott Winston. She also grew up in the town of Hampton, Virginia. She had a dual degree when she graduated from high school. Her duel degrees were in math and physical science. She went to work as a school teacher in Maryland before she retuned back to Hampton.

To this day, Marie Curie’s discoveries and research have benefited those even beyond the scientific community. It is through her work that scientists were able to further study atoms, that people with cancer can be assisted, and that women around the world have a figure that can inspire them to

Sarah Willis Parton was born July 9, 1811 in Portland, Maine. She was the fifth of nine children born to Nathaniel and Hannah Parker Willis. Her father was the editor of two news publications in Boston. Her brother, Nathaniel Parker Willis, was an accomplished journalist. As a young woman, Sarah attended a boarding school in Hartford, Connecticut. It was at this school

     Jane Addams was born on September 6, 1860, the eighth child of a prominent family in the small town of Cedarville, Illinois. Of the nine

Jane (Laura) Addams was born to Sarah (Weber) Addams and John Huy Addams on September 16, 1860 in Cedarville, Illinois near Rockford and Wisconsin border. She was the eighth of nine children. From this union out of the nine children only three of the daughters and one son survived to see adulthood.

Born as Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin to William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft on August 30, 1789, Mary was the only child of her father and mother.

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896 to parents, Edward Fitzgerald and Mary McQuillan.

On September 14, 1879 Margaret Sanger was born in Corning, New York. Although Sanger had ten siblings, Anne, her mother, had numerous of miscarriages. Sanger supposed that her mother’s pregnancies affected her health and played a part of her early death.

Marilyn Monroe was born as Norma Jean Mortensen on June 1st 1926. Her mother, Gladys Monroe, was mentally unstable and her father

She was born on October 17, 1956 in Decatur, Alabama. Her parents names were Charlie and Dorothy jemison. Charlie was a roofer, carpenter, and maintenance supervisor. Dorothy was an elementary school teacher. Mae was the youngest of three children. Her oldest sibling Charles was a real estate agent and Ada, the middle sibling, was a child psychiatrist. All in all they were a very successful family.

Clara was born on December 25, 1821, in North Oxford, Massachusetts, on Christmas day. She was raised in North Oxford. She had a mother, father, and four other siblings. She was the youngest child. Her mother's name was Sarah Barton and her fathers was Stephen Barton. Her siblings consisted of two brothers and

In 1894 Martha was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (Pratt 8). She was the daughter of Jane Beers and George Graham. Her father was a well-known physician who treated mental disorders. After living in Pennsylvania for 12 years, she and her family moved to Santa Barbara,

Hale Bopp is a comet that is 7.15 AU’s away from Jupiter and is named after the discoverers Thomas Bopp and Alan Hale. It was the brightest comet by far in 1995, even brighter than comet Halley, since 1976 when a star in the Orion Nebula was discovered beforehand.

Brought into this world in June of 1926 was a baby girl named Norma Jeane Mortenson, otherwise known as Marilyn Monroe. Her childhood was mostly spent in the orphanages and foster homes in California. This was a result of never

William Herschel, as an amateur astrologist, first discovered Uranus while carefully searching the sky for double stars. He wanted to compare paired stars and record which was the further of the pair. In the year 1781 he noticed light reflecting off a surface of what he originally thought to be a comet. It wasn’t until the summer 1782 that he first referred to it as “his planet” and then only after multiple correspondences with the Royal Society. With in the correspondence he asked for secondary opinions on the “comet” and many members of the Royal society believed it to be either a comet or a planet. The discover lead to questions such as how far away is it. From there it was discovered that the planet was past Saturn which is how it gained