I'm not too sure there was a comet named after a Dutch Astronomer.In all likelihood, the best Dutch Astronomer associated with comets was Dr. Jan Hendrik Oort who the Oort cloud of comets bears his name.
Who is 'marcator'? , I think you mean 'Mercator' , the Dutch geographer and astronomer.
Zoran Knežević - astronomer - was born in 1949.
Stargazer, lotus-eater, uranologist
once they become an astronomer, until they die or when they choose to retire or quit.
The best known astronomer is Christiaan Huygens. See related links for more Dutch astronomers.
I'm not too sure there was a comet named after a Dutch Astronomer.In all likelihood, the best Dutch Astronomer associated with comets was Dr. Jan Hendrik Oort who the Oort cloud of comets bears his name.
Astronauts. In1655, a Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens found Titan!!
Who is 'marcator'? , I think you mean 'Mercator' , the Dutch geographer and astronomer.
has a thick atmosphere was discovered in 1655 by Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens
It was named for the Dutch astronomer, Jan Oort, though it was first hypothesized by Ernst Opik in 1932. Oort refined and re-introduced the idea in 1950.
Titan was the first known moon of Saturn, discovered in 1655 by the Dutch astronomer Christian Huygens.
The Dutch astronomer, Willebrord Snellius, calculated pi to 35 decimal places in the early 17th Century.
In 1577 a Dutch Astronomer was the first to deduce that comets were outside of our atmosphere. Next it was Issac Newton who concluded that gravity was what caused them to accelerate like they do.
An astronomer
The correct spelling is the Oort Cloud of comets that is proposed to lie at the fringe of the solar system. It is named for Dutch astronomer Jan Oort (1900-1992).
I am an astronomer.