When NASA and a group of astronomers sent up a spacecraft designed to find planets orbiting other stars, they named it after Kepler. Why was this an appropriate name?

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Zion Jimenez

6 July, 21:02

When NASA and a group of astronomers sent up a spacecraft designed to find planets orbiting other stars, they named it after Kepler. Why was this an appropriate name?

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Lilian Ortega · Answer 1

c) Kepler figured out the rules of planetary motion, which planets in our solar system and planets elsewhere must obey

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The NASA and the groups of the scientist gave the spacecraft a name of the Kepler as Kepler was a great astronomer and a mathematician who played a key role in the scientific revolution known as the law of the planetary motion.