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.)
“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)
“He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)