Eddington
Eddington or Edington may refer to:
People
- Arthur Eddington, British astrophysicist
- Eddington Varmah, Liberian politician
Places
Australia
United Kingdom
United States of America
Other uses
- Eddington (horse), American thoroughbred racehorse
Named after Sir Arthur Eddington
- Eddington (crater), on the Moon
- Eddington (spacecraft), a cancelled ESA mission to search for extrasolar planets
- Eddington luminosity or Eddington limit, relating to the maximum mass of a star
- Eddington Medal, awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society
- Eddington number, the number of protons in the observable universe
- Eddington–Dirac number, alternative name for the Dirac large numbers hypothesis
- Eddington–Finkelstein coordinates, in the theory of general relativity
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