Legacy
A number of celestial objects have been named in Bond's honor. A few of them include:
- The crater W. Bond on the Moon is named after him.
- A region on Hyperion is called the "Bond-Lassell Dorsum"
- Asteroid (767) Bondia is jointly named after him and his son.
- The Bond Gap within Saturn's C Ring is jointly named after him and his son.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)