Irish named celestial objects

Strangly enough a footnote in Rukl gives the following information about name-changes to craters which were approved by the I.A.U. in Sydney in 1973:
Crater "Clerke"
Old Name "Littrow B"
Position 29.2 W 21.8 N
Personality: US historian of Astronomy.

We Irish just can't win !

Surely Kenneth Edgeworth deserves a mention, after all he has the most objects named after him...several million!

From The Irish Times, 8 March 1999:
"The first astronomer to theorise about their presence was an Irishman from Streete, Co Westmeath, Kenneth Edgeworth, an accomplished amateur who published two papers in the 1940s.

These remained virtually unknown but the idea persisted, culminating in a paper in 1951 by a Dutch astronomer, Gerard Kuiper, whose name now
describes their place in the solar system."

The belt is of course, a complete misnomer!
A Google of "Kuiper Belt Irishman" will reveal other sources of course.

The history is littered with those who deserve the full or partial credit! Many of them are women of course: Jocelyn Bell Burnell (pulsars) and
Rosalind Franklin (DNA) spring to mind here.

In future, can we all refer to the EDGEWORTH-Kuiper belt please?
Thanks in advance :lol:

Well noted galactus!
The term is actually in use.
For instance see:

www.solstation.com/stars/kuiper.htm

Peter.

In future, can we all refer to the EDGEWORTH-Kuiper belt please?
Thanks in advance :lol:

Indeed. Thats a point I can be very pedantic about on some mailing lists!

Viva las EKBO's!