What is "herschel"

Herschel \Her"schel\, n. (Astron.) See Uranus.

Uranus \U"ra*nus\ (-n[u^]s), n. [L. Uranus, Gr. O'yrano`s Uranus, o'yrano`s heaven, sky. Cf. Uranium.]

1. (Gr. Myth.) The son or husband of Gaia (Earth), and father of Chronos (Time) and the Titans.

2. (Astron.) One of the primary planets. It is about 1,800,000,000 miles from the sun, about 36,000 miles in diameter, and its period of revolution round the sun is nearly 84 of our years.

   Note: This planet has also been called Herschel, from Sir William Herschel, who discovered it in 1781, and who named it Georgium Sidus, in honor of George III., then King of England.

Herschel or Herschell may refer to:

• Herschel (name)

In places:

• Herschel, Eastern Cape, South Africa
• Herschel, Saskatchewan
• Herschel, Yukon
• Herschel Bay, Canada
• Herschel Heights, Alexander Island, Antarctica
• Herschel Island, Canada
• Mount Herschel, Antarctica
• Cape Sterneck, Antarctica

In astronomy:

• Herschel (crater), various craters in the solar system
• 2000 Herschel, an asteroid
• 35P/Herschel–Rigollet, a comet
• Herschel Catalogue (disambiguation), various astronomical catalogues of nebulae
• Herschel Medal, awarded by the UK Royal Astronomical Society
• Herschel Museum of Astronomy, in Bath, United Kingdom
• Herschel Space Observatory, operated by the European Space Agency
• Herschel wedge, an optical prism used in solar observation
• Herschel's Garnet Star, a red supergiant star
• William Herschel Telescope, in the Canary Islands
• Telescopium Herschelii, a constellation
• Uranus, for a time known as Herschel

In other uses:

• Allan Herschell Company, which specialized in amusement park rides
• Herschel–Bulkley fluid, a generalized model of a non-Newtonian fluid
• Herschel baronets, of the United Kingdom
• Herschel Girls' School, a private day and boarding school in Cape Town
• Herschel Grammar School, in Slough, Berkshire, England
• Herschel graph, a bipartite undirected graph
• Herschel Greer Stadium, in Nashville, Tennessee
• Herschel Walker trade, the largest player trade in the history of the National Football League
• USNS Hershel "Woody" Williams (T-ESB-4), sister ship of USNS Lewis B. Puller (T-ESB-3), a mobile landing platform

Herschel is a lunar impact crater located just to the north of the walled plain Ptolemaeus. Just to the north is the flooded crater Spörer, and due east lies the disintegrated crater Gyldén. About a crater diameter to the northwest is the walled plain Flammarion, along the southern edge of the Sinus Medii.

The rim of this crater is generally circular, although the western side is straight. It has a well-defined edge that is not significantly worn, and the inner walls are terraced. On the rough inner floor is a notable central rise. This peak is offset slightly to the west of the crater midpoint. The small crater Herschel G is attached to the south-southwest rim, and a tiny craterlet lies across the southern rim.

There are several impact craters named Herschel in the solar system, although the best known is the huge crater on Saturn's moon Mimas. Most are named after the eighteenth century astronomer William Herschel.

• Herschel (lunar crater), on the Moon
• Herschel (Martian crater), on Mars
• Herschel (Mimantean crater), on Mimas
• J. Herschel (crater) - a lunar crater named after John Herschel
• C. Herschel (crater) - a lunar crater named after Caroline Herschel

Herschel is a 304 kilometer Impact Basin in the Martian southern hemisphere, at 14.5°S, 130°E, located in the Mare Tyrrhenum region of Mars. The crater is jointly named after the seventeenth/eighteenth century father and son astronomers William Herschel and John Herschel.

Herschel, Herschell, Herschelle or Hershel, is a given name and a surname of German and Jewish origins. Notable people with the name include:

Herschel is a huge crater in the leading hemisphere of the Saturnian moon Mimas, on the equator at 100° longitude. It is named after the eighteenth century astronomer William Herschel, who discovered Mimas in 1789. Herschel is the largest crater relative to its parent body of any equilibrium planetary moon in the Solar System. It is so large that astronomers have expressed surprise that Mimas was not shattered by the impact that caused it. It measures across, almost one third the diameter of Mimas. Its walls are approximately high, parts of its floor are deep, and its central peak rises above the crater floor. If there were a crater of an equivalent scale on Earth it would be over in diameter and wider than Canada, with walls over high. The impact that formed Herschel must have nearly disrupted Mimas entirely. Chasmata that may be stress fractures due to shock waves from the impact traveling through it and focusing there can be seen on the opposite side of Mimas. The impact is also suspected of having something to do with the current ' Pac-Man'–shaped temperature pattern on Mimas. Herschel has an estimated age of around 4.1 billion years .