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A) 1572 AD by Tycho Brahe.
B) 1604 AD by Johannes Kepler.
C) 1054 AD by Chinese and Middle Eastern astronomers.
D) 1006 by observers in the southern hemisphere.
E) about 9,000 BC by all our ancestors.


C

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