- Eugène Joseph Delporte
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Minor planets discovered: 66 1052 Belgica 15 November 1925 1068 Nofretete 13 September 1926 1122 Neith 17 September 1928 1124 Stroobantia 6 October 1928 1128 Astrid 10 March 1929 1145 Robelmonte 3 February 1929 1168 Brandia 25 August 1930 1170 Siva 29 September 1930 1176 Lucidor 15 November 1930 1199 Geldonia 14 September 1931 1217 Maximiliana 13 March 1932 1221 Amor 12 March 1932 1222 Tina 11 June 1932 1239 Queteleta 4 February 1932 1261 Legia 23 March 1933 1274 Delportia 28 November 1932 1276 Ucclia 24 January 1933 1280 Baillauda 18 August 1933 1285 Julietta 21 August 1933 1288 Santa 26 August 1933 1290 Albertine 21 August 1933 1291 Phryne 15 September 1933 1293 Sonja 26 September 1933 1294 Antwerpia 24 October 1933 1329 Eliane 23 March 1933 1341 Edmée 27 January 1935 1350 Rosselia 3 October 1934 1361 Leuschneria 30 August 1935 1363 Herberta 30 August 1935 1366 Piccolo 29 November 1932 1374 Isora 21 October 1935 1375 Alfreda 22 October 1935 1388 Aphrodite 24 September 1935 1401 Lavonne 22 October 1935 1433 Geramtina 30 October 1937 1476 Cox 10 September 1936 1486 Marilyn 23 August 1938 1491 Balduinus 23 February 1938 1493 Sigrid 26 August 1938 1543 Bourgeois 21 September 1941 1560 Strattonia 3 December 1942 1664 Felix 4 February 1929 1672 Gezelle 29 January 1935 1698 Christophe 10 February 1934 1707 Chantal 8 September 1932 1711 Sandrine 29 January 1935 1722 Goffin 23 February 1938 1724 Vladimir 28 February 1932 1754 Cunningham 29 March 1935 1848 Delvaux 18 August 1933 1878 Hughes 18 August 1933 1926 Demiddelaer 2 May 1935 2101 Adonis 12 February 1936 2213 Meeus 24 September 1935 2276 Warck 18 August 1933 2331 Parvulesco 12 March 1936 2534 Houzeau 2 November 1931 2545 Verbiest 26 January 1933 2713 Luxembourg 19 February 1938 2819 Ensor 20 October 1933 2913 Horta 12 October 1931 3534 Sax 15 December 1936 3567 Alvema 15 November 1930 3605 Davy 28 November 1932 6354 Vangelis 3 April 1934 7043 Godart 2 September 1934 Eugène Joseph Delporte (10 January 1882–19 October 1955) was a Belgian astronomer.
Discoveries
He discovered a total of sixty-six asteroids. Notable discoveries include 1221 Amor (which lent its name to the Amor asteroids) and the Apollo asteroid 2101 Adonis. He discovered or co-discovered some comets as well, including periodic comet 57P/du Toit-Neujmin-Delporte. He worked in the Observatoire Royal de Belgique (Belgian Royal Observatory), situated in the town of Uccle (after which the asteroid 1276 Ucclia is named).
In 1930 he fixed the modern boundaries between all of the constellations in the sky, along lines of right ascension and declination for the epoch B1875.0.
The crater Delporte on the Moon is named after him.
References
Categories:- 1882 births
- 1955 deaths
- 20th-century astronomers
- Belgian scientists
- Belgian astronomers
- Asteroid discoverers
- Comet discoverers
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