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Caroline Lucretia Herschel (16 March 1750 - 9 Jan 1848)
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Caroline Herschel was honored lately by the astronomical community by
naming a Lunar Crater after her.
Caroline Herschel's Comet Discoveries:
1786 Aug 1 C/1786 P1 1786II Herschel
1788 Dec 21 35P/1788 Y1 1788II P/Herschel-Rigollet
1790 Jan 7 C/1790 A1 1790I Herschel
1790 Apr 18 C/1790 H1 1790III Herschel
1791 Dec 15 C/1791 X1 1792I Herschel
1793 Oct 7 C/1793 S2 1993I Messier
1995 Nov 7 2P/1795 V1 1795 P/Encke
1797 Aug 14 C/1797 P1 1797 Bouvard-Herschel-Lee
Caroline Herschel's Deep Sky Discoveries
Biography of Caroline Herschel (School of Mathematics and Statistics, University
of St Andrews, Scotland)
Biography of Caroline
Herschel by Chris Plicht
Biography
of Caroline Herschel by Gary Kronk
Letter from
Caroline Herschel (1750-1848). A poem by Siv Cedering - see
introduction to Women
of Science
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