Asteroids named after people called Joachim
馃懚 Joachim as a baby name
The French geologist and paleontologist Joachim Barrande (1799-1883) made studies of the fossil strata of Bohemia that revealed the abundance and rich variety of life in the Early Paleozoic era. The name was suggested by M. Tichy.Discovered 29 January 1989 by A. Mrkos, Klet
Joachim Krautter (b. 1948) is associate director of the Heidelberg K枚nigstuhl Observatory and a well-known expert on pre-main-sequence stars and novae. He is also engaged in European astronomical organizations and serves as president of the Astronomische Gesellschaft (2002-2005).Discovered 13 September 1991 by Schmadel, L. D., Borngen, F., Tautenburg
Joachim A. St眉we (b. 1958), of the Astronomisches Institut, Ruhr-Universit盲t Bochum, has catalogued dark clouds and globules in the southern Milky Way and pioneered the development of distance determination algorithms for interstellar clouds based on automatic star counts.Discovered 27 August 1998 by LONEOS, Anderson Mesa
Joachim Wambsganss (b. 1961) is a German astronomer and since 2004 has been the seventh director in the long history of the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut. His main interests cover the fields of gravitational lensing, cosmology and extrasolar planets. The name was suggested by the first discoverer.Discovered 10 October 1990 by Schmadel, L. D., Borngen, F., Tautenburg
Joachim Ekrutt (b. 1948) is an enthusiastic German amateur astronomer. A lawyer and tax consultant by profession, Ekrutt published some introductory astronomical booklets, especially Die kleinen Planeten on minor planets. The name was suggested by the first discoverer.Discovered 12 September 1991 by Schmadel, L. D., Borngen, F., Tautenburg
German astronomer Joachim G眉rtler (b.1939) researched and lectured at the Astrophysical Institute of the University of Jena. His main research field was the interstellar medium. He is co-discoverer of the IR carbon dioxide ice band in spectra of molecular clouds. The name was suggested by the first discoverer.Discovered 12 September 1991 by Schmadel, L. D., Borngen, F., Tautenburg
Headmaster of a Latin school, Joachim Neander (1650-1680) wrote the words to the ecumenical hymn Praise to the Lord, the Almighty. The Neander Valley, near D眉sseldorf, also spelled Neanderthal, is named after him. It was where the anthropoid Homo neanderthalensis [primigenius] was found in 1856.Discovered 5 October 1994 by F. Borngen, Tautenburg
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