Asteroids named after people called Baron
馃懚 Baron as a baby name馃惗 Baron as a dog name
(7171) Arthurkraus
Baron Arthur Kraus (1854-1930) was a man of wide interests, including new technology, sports and aviation. He privately funded the Public Observatory at Pardubice in 1912, made observations of sunspots and mainly served as a sedulous popularizer of astronomy. The name was suggested by J. Ticha.Discovered 13 January 1988 by A. Mrkos, Klet
(9814) Ivobenko
Baron Ivo von Benko of Bojnik (1851-1903) was the director of the Pola Observatory. He developed systematic work on the meridian circle and compiled a catalogue of fundamental stars. He is best known for the observation that ruled out the existence of the earth's second moon.Discovered 23 October 1998 by K. Korlevic, Visnjan
(9838) Falz-Fein
Baron Eduard Aleksandrovich von Falz-Fein (b. 1912) is an outstanding collector of works of art and historical documents, known for his charity. Born in Russia, his uncle Friedrich Falz-Fein was the founder in 1875 of the well-known reserve Askania-Nova in Ukraine.Discovered 4 September 1987 by L. V. Zhuravleva, Nauchnyj
(48529) von Wrangel
Baron Ferdinand von Wrangel (1797-1870), a Baltic German explorer and one of the founders of the Russian Geographic Society, studied glaciology, geomagnetics and climatology. Noticing swarms of birds flying northward from near the Kolyma river, he correctly deduced that there must be an island in the Arctic Ocean.Discovered 20 July 1993 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
(117712) Podmaniczky
Baron G茅za Podmaniczky (1839-1923) was a Hungarian landowner and amateur astronomer. At the encouragement of Konkoly-Thege Mikl贸s, he established the Kiskartal Observatory on his land in 1884. Several Hungarian astronomers worked there, mainly by making observations of planets, comets and variable stars.Discovered 1 April 2005 by K. Sarneczky, Piszkesteto
(117714) Kiskartal
Kiskartal Observatory was founded by Baron G茅za Podmaniczky in 1884. The main telescope was a 19-cm Merz-Cooke refractor, and the observatory library contained 35 000 books. The observatory and the library were demolished in the 1920s, and Podmaniczky bestowed the books and the telescope to the Konkoly Observatory.Discovered 2 April 2005 by K. Sarneczky, Piszkesteto
(260601) Wesselenyi
Baron Mikl贸s Wessel茅nyi (1796-1850) was a Hungarian statesman, leader of the upper house of the Diet, member of the Board of Academy of Sciences, and a hero of the 1838 Pest flood. During this natural disaster, he saved many lives by rowing about the flooded city, rescuing people from rooftops.Discovered 2 April 2005 by K. Sarneczky, Piszkesteto