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