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3 unusual facts about Herschel


35P/Herschel–Rigollet

Roger Rigollet (Lagny, France) rediscovered the comet on 1939-07-28; it was described as diffuse and with a magnitude of 8.0.

Through December and January the comet was observed by Nevil Maskelyne at the Greenwich Observatory and by Charles Messier at the Paris Observatory.

Herschel, Saskatchewan

The village was named in honor of 19th Century English physicist and astronomer Sir John Fredrick William Herschel.


40-foot telescope

-- when?--> and is now located in the Herschel Collection of the National Maritime Museum, in the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London.

B-modes

A research published Sep 30, 2013 in the online edition of Physical Review Letters, led by Duncan Hanson of McGill University in Montreal, Canada who is also the lead author, has discovered the B-modes using National Science Foundation's South Pole Telescope and with help from the Herschel space observatory.

Clifford Cunningham

Although 'asteroid' has been attributed to the famous astronomer William Herschel, Cunningham found evidence that it was actually proposed by Greek expert Charles Burney, Jr., the son of a friend of Herschel.

Gravitational lens

A research published Sep 30, 2013 in the online edition of Physical Review Letters, led by McGill University in Montreal, Canada, has discovered the B-modes, that are formed due to gravitational lensing effect, using National Science Foundation's South Pole Telescope and with help from the Herschel space observatory.

Greatness

To prove this thesis Galton collected data showing that genius clusters in what he termed “Notable Family Lines”, such as those of Bernoulli, Cassini, Darwin, Herschel, and Jussieu in science, or Bach in music.

Herschel Forester

Herschel Vincent Forester (born April 14, 1931 in Dallas, Texas) is a former professional American football offensive lineman in the National Football League.

Herschel Girls' School

It was Miss Robinson who gave Herschel its motto Ad Dei Gloriam and who designed the new badge with the symbol for Uranus as a reminder of the link with the Herschel family.

Johann Hieronymus Schröter

Herschel's discovery of Uranus in 1781 inspired Schröter to pursue astronomy more seriously, and he resigned his post and became chief magistrate and district governor of Lilienthal.

Millioctave

The invention goes back to John Herschel, who proposed a division of the octave into 1000 parts, which was published (with appropriate credit to Herschel) in George Biddell Airy's book on musical acoustics.

Moses Hirschel

Disappointed with the lack of reform within the Breslau Rabbinat at the time, Hirschel 'converted' to Catholicism in 1803 taking the name "Christian Moritz Herschel".

Paul Cairn Vellacott

On 20 June 1929 he married Hilda Francesca Lubbock, daughter of Sir Nevile Lubbock (1839–1914) and Constance Ann Herschel (daughter of astronomer John Herschel and granddaughter of astronomer William Herschel).

Phuthi language

Phuthi is spoken in dozens (perhaps many dozens) of scattered communities in the border areas between where the far northern Eastern Cape meets Lesotho: from Herschel northwards and eastwards, and in the Matatiele area of the northeastern Transkei; and throughout southern Lesotho, from Quthing in the southwest, through regions south and east of Mount Moorosi, to mountain villages west and north of Qacha (Qacha's Nek).

The Interpreters

Herschel continued the group and in 2000 performed at the 2000 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, despite claiming not to be Republicans.

Upton, Slough

Laid out in 1842, the grounds (a public park as Herschel Park since 1949) are believed to have been designed by Joseph Paxton.


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