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Herschel or Herschell may refer to:
People
Places
Herschel, Eastern Cape , South Africa
Herschel, Saskatchewan
Herschel, Yukon
Herschel Bay , Canada
Herschel Heights , Alexander Island, Antarctica
Herschel Island , Canada
Herschel Island (Chile) , an island of the Hermite Islands archipelago
Mount Herschel , Antarctica
Cape Sterneck , Antarctica
Astronomy
Herschel (crater) , various craters in the solar system
2000 Herschel , an asteroid
35P/Herschel–Rigollet , a comet
Herschel Catalogue (disambiguation) , various astronomical catalogues of nebulae
Herschel Medal , awarded by the UK Royal Astronomical Society
Herschel Museum of Astronomy , in Bath, United Kingdom
Herschel Space Observatory , operated by the European Space Agency
Herschel wedge , an optical prism used in solar observation
Herschel's Garnet Star , a red supergiant star
William Herschel Telescope , in the Canary Islands
Telescopium Herschelii , a constellation
Uranus , for a time known as Herschel
Other uses
Allan Herschell Company , which specialized in amusement park rides
Herschel–Bulkley fluid , a generalized model of a non-Newtonian fluid
Herschel baronets , of the United Kingdom
Herschel Girls' School , a private day and boarding school in Cape Town
Herschel Grammar School , in Slough, Berkshire, England
Herschel graph , a bipartite undirected graph
Herschel Greer Stadium , in Nashville, Tennessee
Herschel the sea lion , predatory seals in Seattle
Herschel Walker trade , the largest player trade in the history of the National Football League
Herschel Supply Co. , Canadian backpack manufacturer
USNS Hershel "Woody" Williams (T-ESB-4), sister ship of
USNS Lewis B. Puller (T-ESB-3) , a mobile landing platform
Herschel, a specific
heptomino and
methuselah (cellular automaton) in
Conway’s Game of Life
Herschel , a
a 1926 boat of the Mackenzie River watershed
See also
Topics referred to by the same term