Crommelin
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Crommelin may refer to:
People:
Craters
named Crommelin:
Comet
named Crommelin:
Military Ship:
People:
- Andrew Claude de la Cherois CrommelinAndrew Claude de la Cherois CrommelinAndrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin was a Irish-born, British astronomer of Huguenot descent. He was born in Cushendun, County Antrim, and educated in England at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He worked at the Royal Greenwich Observatory and went on several solar eclipse...
, astronomer - Daniel Crommelin Verplanck, U.S. politician
- John G. CrommelinJohn G. CrommelinRear Admiral John Geraerdt Crommelin, Jr. was a prominent United States Navy officer and later a frequent political candidate who championed white supremacy.-Early life and naval career:...
, U.S. Navy officer - May CrommelinMay CrommelinMaria Henrietta de la Cherois Crommelin, known as May de la Cherois Crommelin, was a novelist and travel writer born in Ulster, Ireland at Carrowdore Castle in County Down....
, writer - Timothy John Crommelin Eggar, British politician
Craters
Impact crater
In the broadest sense, the term impact crater can be applied to any depression, natural or manmade, resulting from the high velocity impact of a projectile with a larger body...
named Crommelin:
- Crommelin (lunar crater)Crommelin (lunar crater)Crommelin is an ancient lunar crater that is located in the vicinity of the south pole of the Moon, on the far side. It lies to the north of the large crater Zeeman, and to the east-northeast of Numerov....
- Crommelin (Martian crater)
Comet
Comet
A comet is an icy small Solar System body that, when close enough to the Sun, displays a visible coma and sometimes also a tail. These phenomena are both due to the effects of solar radiation and the solar wind upon the nucleus of the comet...
named Crommelin:
- 27P/Crommelin27P/CrommelinComet Crommelin, also known as Comet Pons-Coggia-Winnecke-Forbes, is a periodic comet in the solar system named after the British astronomer Andrew C. D. Crommelin who calculated its orbit in 1930...
Military Ship:
- USS Crommelin