Honors
The following celestial features are named for him:
- 13P/Olbers is a periodic comet.
- Asteroid 1002 Olbersia.
- The crater Olbers on the Moon.
- Olbers, a 200-km-diameter dark albedo feature on Vesta's surface
Read more about this topic: Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers
Famous quotes containing the word honors:
“There is a moment when god honors falsehood.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
“Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
“The sire then shook the honors of his head,
And from his brows damps of oblivion shed
Full on the filial dullness:”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)