Why is the Mandelbrot Set included in "planets" for the Microsoft WWT? ?

Question

no the set is actually on the planet! wtf?

Answer 1

If you mean Mandelbrot (without set) it's a small planet named 27500 Mandelbrot in November 1990 in Benoît B. Mandelbrot's honor.

But Mandelbrot Set isn't planet at all maybe it's just conflicting names.

If you want any information about the French-American mathematician  known as the father of fractal geometry Benoît B. Mandelbrot see this link from Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benoit_Mand...