The first tribute was the naming of an impact crater 108 km in diameter and 4,630 m deep, located on the near side of the Moon. It was named "Pascal" in 1964 by the International Astronomical Union. Its lunar coordinates are 74°22′ N and 70°28′ W, and its neighboring craters include Poncelet, Desargues, Pythagoras, Boole and… Brianchon—the very man who gave his name to the dual of Pascal's theorem! The name "Pascal" was also given to asteroid No. 4,500, discovered by Hiroshi Kaneda and Seiji Ueda on February 3, 1989, in Kushiro, Japan, within the main belt, the region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter that contains hundreds of thousands of asteroids.
