after the 17th-century English astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks. To the south of Horrocks are the craters Halley and Hind, Rhaeticus is to the north, and Pickering...

Horrocks or Horrox may refer to Amy Horrocks (1867 – 1919), English music educator, pianist and composer Brian Horrocks (1895–1985), British Army lieutenant-general...

were prosperous farmers and merchants, and Horrocks was probably a tutor for the Stones' children. Horrocks was the first to demonstrate that the Moon...

William Henry Pickering. It lies more than 25 km northeast of the crater Horrocks, which lies within Hipparchus. To the southeast is the lava-flooded...

is the prominent crater Albategnius, and to the southwest lies Ptolemaeus, a feature of comparable dimensions to Hipparchus. Horrocks lies entirely within...

the crater and the person the crater is named for. Where a crater formation has associated satellite craters, these are detailed on the main crater description...

The following is a list of people whose names were given to craters of the Moon. The list of approved names in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature...

1639, Horrocks was the only astronomer to realise that a transit of Venus was imminent; others became aware of it only after the event when Horrocks's report...

astronomical unit, and hence the size of the Solar System as shown by Jeremiah Horrocks in 1639 with the first known observation of a Venus transit (after history's...

639 AU)). His observations were not published until 1661, well after Horrocks's death. Horrocks based his calculation on the (false) presumption that each planet's...