Asteroids named after people called Adalbert
👶 Adalbert as a baby name
Named in memory of Adalbert Prey (1873-1949), professor of astronomy in Innsbruck, Prague and, eventually, Vienna, where he was elected to membership in the Austrian Academy of Sciences. After World War II until his death he served as one of the two secretaries of the Academy. He worked on the motion of 70 Oph (sometimes called “Prey's star”), as well as on the dynamics of minor planets and the moon. He thoroughly investigated the field of isostasy and gravitation, to which he devoted a series of papers. Named by the first discoverer following a suggestion by H. Haupt, who also prepared the citation.Discovered 9 September 1991 by Schmadel, L. D., Borngen, F., Tautenburg
Named for the most famous Austrian narrator Adalbert Stifter (1805–1868). After formative years spent in the Bohemian Forest, he studied near the Benedictine Abbey in Kremsmünster, later living in Vienna and Linz. In his brilliant novels and epics (The Timber Forest, Rock Crystal, Indian Summer and Witiko) landscapes were described in a superb manner. Stifter described the correlation of man and nature in a subtle manner, full of feeling. He dealt with questions of education, love and piety, and he was also engaged in painting and science. He gave full details of the total solar eclipse of 1842 July 8 as observed in Vienna.Discovered 9 September 1991 by Borngen, F., Schmadel, L. D., Tautenburg
Adalbert Heussinger (b. 1923) is a member of the Catholic order of Minorites. He was for 40 years confessor in St. Peter's Cathedral at the Vatican, where he absolved thousands of penitents of their sins. He is recognized as a distinguished scholar of theology and philosophy. The name was suggested by the first discoverer.Discovered 12 September 1991 by Schmadel, L. D., Borngen, F., Tautenburg
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