Please explain about knowledge of a planet?

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When Uranus was discovered they realised another planet must exist (Neptune) because of the “behaviour” of Uranus was being caused by Neptune.

What are they talking about? What was Uranus doing that showed Neptune was out there?

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so basically uranus was acting kinda weird like it was being tugged by something strong. astronomers were like wait what’s going on here. they figured there had to be another planet affecting it. turns out neptune was hiding out there just chilling and causing the weirdness. it’s like when your friend keeps shifting their weight trying to get comfortable but you don’t see the chair they’re on. super cool how they did all that math and figured it out without even seeing neptune at first. pretty impressive stuff honestly

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