because he predicted its returm
Edmund Halley.
Edmond Halley had a comet called Halley's Comet named after him.
The comet was named after the man not the other way around. No man as far as I am aware has been named after a comet with the possible exception of Bill Halley and the comets?
Edmund Halley did not invent anything, but he was a British astronomer known for calculating the orbit of the comet that now bears his name. Halley's Comet, which passes by Earth approximately every 75-76 years, was the first comet to be recognized as periodic.
Halley's comet was named after a British astronomer. Edmund Halley concluded that reports of three different comets which appeared 76 years apart from one another were referring to the same comet. He died before the year of his prediction, but it appeared. Therefore, the comet was named after him.
Edmund Halley
Edmund Halley.
He discovered Halley's Comet which is named after him.
Edmund Halley. He even had a comet named after him, the Halley Comet.
Halley's comet is a comet named after a Edmund Halley and it comes every 76 years so it will most likely come in 2061
Edmund Halley PREDICTED the return of the comet which was later named for him.
Edmond Halley had a comet called Halley's Comet named after him.
The comet was named after the man not the other way around. No man as far as I am aware has been named after a comet with the possible exception of Bill Halley and the comets?
Edmund Halley did not invent anything, but he was a British astronomer known for calculating the orbit of the comet that now bears his name. Halley's Comet, which passes by Earth approximately every 75-76 years, was the first comet to be recognized as periodic.
The Halley's comet was named after Edmond Halley, the English astronomer who was the first to determine the comet's periodicity. He first sighted it in 1705.
Halley's Comet is named after a guy's last name. He was Edmund HALLEY. The girl's name 'Haley' does not come into question.
Edmund Halley found Halley's Comet, and he is now dead