James Prescott Joule - Asteroid 12759 Joule And Lunar Impact Crater Joule - Sale, UK - Extraterrestrial Locations on Waymarking.com

James Prescott Joule
James Prescott Joule FRS (/d?u?l/;[1] 24 December 1818 – 11 October 1889) was an English physicist and brewer, born in Salford, Lancashire. Joule studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work (see energy). This led to the Law of conservation of energy, and this led to the development of the First law of thermodynamics. The SI derived unit of energy, the joule, is named for James Joule. He worked with Lord Kelvin to develop the absolute scale of temperature. Joule also made observations of magnetostriction, and he found the relationship between the current through a resistor and the heat dissipated, which is now called Joule's first law.

In his later life he lived in the town of Sale, where he died at home. The pub is named J.P. Joule and its sign shows a photograph of James Joule taken in his later life. The pub is owned by Wetherspoons and this chain always tries to give its pub a name that has some relevance to its location. Here they have chosen the most famous resident of Sale and he is doubly relevant due to his own brewery background.

Asteroid 12759 Joule
12759 Joule (1993 TL18) is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on October 9, 1993 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory.

Eric Walter Elst is a Belgian astronomer and a prolific discoverer of asteroids, with over 3,000 discovered so far (just 85 of these having been co-discovered).

Joule (crater)
Joule is a lunar impact crater that lies on the far side of the Moon. It is located to the north-northeast of the walled plain Mach. It has a diameter of 96 kilometres. link

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