What is one of several heavenly bodies named for their discoveries?

Answer 1

Well if you want to count a comet as a heavenly body, then you could say that Halley's Comet was named after Edmund Halley, the discoverer of the composition of a comet and the orbit of one as well. He predicted the orbit of Halley's Comet, which can only be visible on Earth every 75 years because of its extremely broad path of orbit. He died 16 years before he had the chance to see it, though his calculations were correct. The next time Halley's Comet will be visible from Earth is in the year 2065.

Answer 2

Comets are generally named for the discoverer(s). For example, comet Hale-Bopp was named for two guys named Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp, who both observed the comet on the same evening.

The comet "Shoemaker-Levy 9", which fragmented and then crashed into Jupiter, was the 9th comet discovered by the team of Eugene & Carolyn Shoemaker and David Levy.

Some comets are named in honor of other people; for example, "Halley's Comet" had been observed dozens of times, with the earliest recorded observation in 467 BCE. But it wasn't until after it appeared in 1682 that the astronomer Edmund Halley calculated that all these recorded observations of comets were all the SAME comet, and accurately predicted its reappearance in 1759. Halley being long-dead at the time, the comet was named in his honor.

Answer 3

They named them after the Roman gods. Neptune means posiden. Venus is aphrodite. Mercury is hermes. Jupiter means zues and so on

Answer 4

The planet Uranus is an example of a heavenly body named after its discovery. It was the first planet discovered with a telescope in 1781 by William Herschel.

Answer 5

Comet Smith-Tuttle

Answer 6

The name you seek is the Sun.

Answer 7

comet