Lexell

 [lek-suhl]  

Lex·ell

   [lek-suhl]
noun
Astronomy. a comet that passed closer to the earth than any other comet (1770), but now has an orbit that is too distant from the earth for it to be observed.
Origin:
after Anders Jean Lexell (1740–84), Finnish-born mathematician, who calculated its orbit
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