The comet 1846 III is called Brorsen and the comet 1847 V is named Brorsen-Metcalf (because Joel Hastings Metcalf was its rediscoverer in 1919).
==Delo ==* Odkril je pet kometov, ki imajo oznake 1846 III, 1846 VII, 1847 V, 1851 III in 1851 IV.