and the sun so if you look at some of the charts in that era that goes falcon mercury, venus, earth. the orbit seemed to be off a little bit and so the astronomers figured it seems to be something protruding the orbit it has to be a planets between mercury and the sun. it's got to be a hot place right near the sun and no one had reliably seen it but that wasn't a surprise. it will never be in the sky at night and you can't see it in the daytime lost in the sun's glare. if my feet when the moon covers of the bright sun. it was showing the clips over the rocky mountains but about the third main character but i have to say is my favorite, her name is maria mitchell. back in the 19th century the famous female scientist in america was an astronomer and in 1847 when she discovered a comet with denmark by 1878 she was a professor at the college which of course at the time was a relatively new all-female college in new york. we talk about the difficulties women have you could imagine that it would be a lot harder. it's what life was like for maria mitchell and the unequal trea