Pierre-Simon Laplace - Honors

Honors

  • The asteroid 4628 Laplace is named for Laplace.
  • Laplace is one of only seventy-two persons to have his name engraved on the Eiffel Tower.
  • The tentative working name of the European Space Agency Europa Jupiter System Mission is the "Laplace" space probe.

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