Asteroids named after people called Jakob
馃懚 Jakob as a baby name
Named in honor of Jakob Grove Rasmussen, fianc茅 of the daughter of the third discoverer, currently graduating in astronomy at the Copenhagen Observatory.Discovered 14 November 1985 by Jensen, P., Augustesen, K., Fogh Olsen, H. J., Brorfelde
Jakob Staude (b. 1944) is staff astronomer at the Heidelberg Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and a well-known expert on star formation. Since 1981 Staude has also served as editor-in-chief of the German journal Sterne und Weltraum. The name was suggested by the first discoverer.Discovered 13 October 1990 by Schmadel, L. D., Borngen, F., Tautenburg
Jakob Refer Thygesen (b. 1986) was awarded second place in the 2007 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his environmental sciences team project. He attends the Odense Technical High School, Odense, Fyn, Denmark.Discovered 22 May 1998 by LINEAR, Socorro
Jakob Steiner (1796-1863) was a self-made Swiss farmer's son who later became a professor at the University of Berlin. He developed new methods in projective geometry that enabled him to prove many beautiful and often intricate theorems.Discovered 1 June 2000 by P. G. Comba, Prescott
Jakob Deller (b. 1985) is a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute in G枚ttingen, Germany. He studies the formation, evolution, and internal structures of near-Earth asteroids and comets from spacecraft measurements.Discovered 6 October 2000 by LONEOS, Anderson Mesa
Jakob Erwin Gierlinger (b. 2002) is the son of the discoverer. He is an IT specialist and member of the observatory Gaisberg. At the observatory, he is responsible for software development.Discovered 7 October 2007 by R. Gierlinger, Gaisberg
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