Did Galileo discover Neptune 234 years earlier than had been thought?

[Kentucky Kache]

An Australian boffin says that the planet Neptune may have actually been discovered 234 years earlier than had been thought, by the famed Renaissance Italian astronomer and scientist Galileo Galilei - who was persecuted by the Inquisition for his "heretical" astronomy research. Professor David Jamieson of Melbourne Uni says that proof for this theory may lie within a hidden coded message yet to be discovered.

Prof Jamieson says that Galileo's 400-year-old stargazing notebooks reveal that the 17th century boffinry all-rounder observed and recorded Neptune in the year 1613, while probing the Jovian moons. The notebooks show a "star" in a position where no star is to be found - but exactly where the gas giant Neptune, eighth and last true planet of the Solar System, would have been at the time.

Full story:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/10/vatican_galileo_cryptogram_neptune_discovery/

 

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[Kentucky Kache]

Answers usually come when questions are being asked. If you at least have new questions, then maybe something will come of it.

 

[Kentucky Kache]

"Professor David Jamieson of Melbourne Uni says that proof for this theory may lie within a hidden coded message yet to be discovered."

Speaking strictly as an rational observer, "yet to be discovered" is clutching at straws and adds no validation.

That's only one part of the article.
It also says:

"The notebooks show a "star" in a position where no star is to be found - but exactly where the gas giant Neptune, eighth and last true planet of the Solar System, would have been at the time.

"This unknown star was actually the planet Neptune. Computer simulations show the precision of his observations revealing that Neptune would have looked just like a faint star almost exactly where Galileo observed it," according to Prof Jamieson."

It's not set in stone, but something to think about.