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| Alexander Stewart Herschel |
Alexander Stewart Herschel (February 5 1836 - June 18 1907) was a British astronomer. (references) |
| C. Herschel (crater) |
C. Hershel is a small lunar crater that lies on the western part of Mare Imbrium. It is a circular, bowl-shaped formation that has not undergone significant erosion. The interior floor has the same low albedo as the surrounding lunar mare. To the south-southwest is the similar Heis crater. C. Herschel lies on a wrinkle-ridge of the lunar mare named the Dorsum Heim. (references) |
| Caroline Herschel |
Caroline Lucretia Herschel (March 16 1750 - January 9 1848) was a German-born English astronomer. She worked with her brother Sir William Herschel. Her main contribution to astronomy was the discovery of some new comets. In particular, the periodic comet 35P/Herschel-Rigollet bears her name. (references) |
| Henry Herschel Brickell |
Henry Herschel Brickell (September 13, 1889 - May 29, 1952) was a U.S. literary critic. (references) |
| Herschel (crater on Mimas) |
Herschel is a huge crater on the Saturnian moon Mimas. It is named after the eighteenth century astronomer William Herschel, who discovered Mimas in 1789. (references) |
| Herschel (crater) |
There are several impact craters named Herschel in the solar system, although the best known is the huge crater on Saturn's moon Mimas. They are all named after the eighteenth century astronomer William Herschel. (references) |
| Herschel (lunar crater) |
Herschel is a lunar impact crater located just to the north of Ptolemaeus crater. Just to the north is the flooded Spörer crater, and due east lies the disintegrated Gyldén crater. About a crater diameter to the northwest is the Flammarion walled plain, along the southern edge of the Sinus Medii. (references) |
| Herschel (Martian crater) |
Herschel is a large crater on Mars. It is named after the eighteenth century astronomer William Herschel. (references) |
| Herschel C. Loveless |
Herschel C. Loveless was the Democratic governor of Iowa, from 1957 to 1961. (references) |
| Herschel Gober |
Herschel Gober, a veteran of the Vietnam War, was acting Secretary of Veterans Affairs on two occasions and Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs for most of the administration of Bill Clinton. Gober had been director of the Arkansas Department of Veterans Affairs while Clinton was Governor. (references) |
| Herschel Greer Stadium |
Herschel Greer Stadium is a minor league baseball stadium located in Nashville, Tennessee on the grounds of Fort Negley, an American Civil War fortification located approximately two miles (three km) south of downtown Nashville. (references) |
| Herschel Island |
Herschel Island is an island in the Beaufort Sea, which is considered part of the Arctic Ocean. It is the northernmost point in the Yukon, and it lies 5 kilometers (3.1 miles) off the coast of the Yukon Territory, of which it is administratively a part. The island has a total area of 112 square kilometers (43 square miles) and has a greatest length of approximately 18 kilometers (11 miles) and is about 11 kilometers (7 miles) wide at its widest point. (references) |
| Herschel Johnson |
Herschel Johnson (1894 - 1966) was a U.S. diplomat. He served as the acting U.S. ambassador to the United Nations between 1946 and 1947. (references) |
| Herschel Space Observatory |
The Herschel Space Observatory is a mission of the European Space Agency. It is to be launched in 2007 aboard an Ariane 5 rocket together with Planck and will enter a Lissajous 700 000 km diameter orbit 1.5 million kilometres away from Earth at the second Lagrange point of the Earth-Sun system. (references) |
| Herschel Vespasian Johnson |
Herschel Vespasian Johnson (September 18, 1812 - August 16, 1880) was an American politician. He was the governor of Georgia from 1853 to 1857 and the vice-presidential nominee of the Douglas wing of the Democratic Party in the 1860 US presidential election. (references) |
| Herschel Walker |
Herschel Walker (born March 3, 1962 in Wrightsville, Georgia) was a professional American football player in the United States Football League and later, the National Football League. (references) |
| J. Herschel (crater) |
J. Herschel is large lunar crater of the variety termed a walled-plain. It is located in the northern part of the Moon's surface, and so appears foreshortened when viewed from the Earth. The southeastern rim of J. Hershel forms part of the edge of the Mare Frigoris lunar mare. To the northwest is Anaximander crater. Bordering the northern rim is a large, unnamed lunar plain. Just to the south is the small Horrebow crater. (references) |
| John Herschel |
English astronomer (son of William Herschel) who extended the catalogue of stars to the southern hemisphere and did pioneering work in photography (1792-1871). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Sir Frederick William Herschel |
English astronomer (born in Germany) who discovered infrared light and who catalogued the stars and discovered the planet Uranus (1738-1822). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Sir John Frederick William Herschel |
English astronomer (son of William Herschel) who extended the catalogue of stars to the southern hemisphere and did pioneering work in photography (1792-1871). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Sir John Herschel |
English astronomer (son of William Herschel) who extended the catalogue of stars to the southern hemisphere and did pioneering work in photography (1792-1871). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Sir William Herschel |
English astronomer (born in Germany) who discovered infrared light and who catalogued the stars and discovered the planet Uranus (1738-1822). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| William Herschel |
English astronomer (born in Germany) who discovered infrared light and who catalogued the stars and discovered the planet Uranus (1738-1822). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| William Herschel Museum |
The William Herschel Museum is a museum dedicated to the life and works of the famous astronomer, William Herschel. The museum is situated in Herschel's former residence in Bath, England, where he manufactured telescopes and also discovered the planet Uranus in 1781, his most famous achievement, though he continued to make extensive contributions to the field of astronomy. (references) |
| William Herschel Telescope |
The William Herschel Telescope or WHT was first conceived in the late 1960s, when the Anglo-Australian Observatory was being designed. The British astronomical community saw the need for telescopes of comparable power in the Northern Hemisphere. Planning began in 1974, but by 1979 the project was on the verge of being scrapped due to a ballooning budget. A re-design cut the price-tag substantially, and Dutch astronomers took a 20% stake in the project, allowing the project to be given the go-ahead in 1981. That year was the 200th anniversary of the discovery of Uranus by William Herschel, and it was decided to name the telescope in his honour. The telescope is a member of the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes. (references) |
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