any scientific institutes, schools, spaceships, craters, means of transport, plants, food products, artworks, often surprising animate and inanimate objects are named after the great astronomer, e.g.:

• largecraterontheMoon(107kmdiameter);• largecrateronMars(292kmdiameter);• planetoid no 1322 discovered in 1934 in Heidelberg (goes around the Sunin3years282days);• USsatellite“OAO-3Copernicus”(OrbitingAstronomicalObservatory),1972;• Soviet-Polishsatellite“Kopernik500”(measured theradiationof theSunandionosphere),1973;• chemicalelementCopernicum(Cn);• PolishhydrographicshipOBR“Kopernik”,yacht“Copernicus”,cruiseships;• aeroplanePLLLOTIł-62“MikołajKopernik”;• Wrocław-StrachowiceCopernicusAirport;• NicolausCopernicusUniversityinToruń;• CopernicusScienceCentreinWarsaw,planetariuminBrussels;• NicolausCopernicusAstronomicalCentreofthePolishAcademyofSciences;• CopernicusHouseinToruń;• roseandclematis“MikołajKopernik”,thegenusof24speciesofpalms;• billsandcoinswiththeportraitofNicolausCopernicus;• gingerbreadsmanufacturedbyKopernikConfectioneryFactoryS.A.,oneoftheoldestinEurope(foundedin1763);• “Kopernik”beerbrewedbyAmberBreweryinBielkówek(Pomeraniaregion);• vodka“Copernicus”manufacturedbyKopernikLiquorManufactoryinToruń;• KopernikFederalBankintheUSA,foundedin1924;• SymphonyNo2byHenrykMikołajGórecki(Poland),operabyClaudeVivier(Canada);• computerprogrammeCopernicDesktopSearch,“Copernicus”computergame.

LargeimpactcraterCopernicusontheMoonUSsatellite“OAO-3Copernicus”(OrbitingAstronomicalObservatory)forultravioletandX-rayobservations;usedin1972–1981

Rose “Mikołaj Kopernik” bred in 1969by Bolesław Wituszyński, light pink,f lower diameter 8–10 cm, fragrant, 2012,Polish Academy of Sciences BotanicalGarden – Centre for Biological DiversityConservationinPowsin

Banner of Nicolaus Copernicus State MaleGymnasium inToruń (nowGeneral SecondarySchool No 1); in 1568, the City School at theBasilica of St John the Baptist and St John theEvangelistinToruń,whereNicolausCopernicusis believed to have started his education, wastransformed into ScholaThoruniensis; in 1926itwasnamedafterNicolausCopernicus

Clematis “MikołajKopernik”, violetwithpinkishtintinsummer,flowerdiameterca.15cm;holdstopropswithpetioles;preferssunnylocations,2012,ClematisPlantNursery

PassengershipMF“Kopernik”constructedin1977in Bergen; thoroughlymodernised in 1993; since2007ownedbyaPolishshipagent,operatesontheŚwinoujście–Ystadline

1000-zlotybillwithNicolausCopernicusimagemodelledontheToruńoriginal; in circulation in1975–1996; issued three times,in1975,1979and1982; in1965abillwiththesameimageandnominalvaluewasalsoissuedanditcirculatedin1966–1978,2012

“Kopernik” gingerbreads manufactured byKopernik Confectionery Factory S.A. in Toruń,oneoftheoldestcompaniesintheregion(foundedin 1763 by Johann Weese) and the oldest oneoperating until today; the factory is the largestproducerofgingerbreadsandwafersinPoland;themodern manufacturing technology is based on old recipesfromthe16thcentury,2012

Chemical element 112: Copernicium (Cn)from the group of transition metals of the periodicsystem;firstcreatedinaDarmstadtlaboratoryin1996;thenamewasofficiallyconfirmedbyIUPACon19February2010

10-zloty coinwithNicolausCopernicusimagemodelledon the Toruń original; incirculation in 1959–1977;issued in 1959, 1961, 1962and1965,2012

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