Edmond Halley - Named After Halley

Named After Halley

  • Halley's Comet (orbital period (approximately) 76 years)
  • Halley (lunar crater)
  • Halley (Martian crater)
  • Halley Research Station, Antarctica
  • Halley's method, for the numerical solution of equations
  • Halley Street, in Blackburn, Victoria, Australia
  • Edmund Halley Road, Oxford Science Park, Oxford, OX4 4DQ UK
  • Edmund Halley Drive, Reston, Virginia, USA
  • Halley Ward, surgical ward at Homerton Hospital East London
  • Halley's Mount, Saint Helena (680m high)
  • Halley Drive, Hackensack, NJ. Intersects with Comet Way on the campus of Hackensack High School, the home of The Comets
  • Rue Edmund Halley, Avignon, France

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