Professor Layton's name, Hershel, is likely to be based on John Herschel, an English astronomer who wrote to another astronomer, William Lassel, about potential undiscovered moons in Neptune. Short after, Lassel discovered Triton, which is Luke's surname.
SOURCE: http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1850MmRAS..18..192H
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