Asteroids named after people called Karl
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(1690) Mayrhofer
Named in honor of Karl Mayrhofer, Austrian astronomer, currently living at Ried im Innkreis, well known for his orbit computations on minor planets. Name proposed by O. Kippes, who found some of the identifications involving this planet.Discovered 8 November 1948 by M. Laugier, Nice
(4463) Marschwarzschild
The son of Karl Schwarzschild, Martin was a leader in research on the structure and evolution of stars. He was the first to use a hot-air balloon (Project Stratoscope, 1957) to carry a telescope into the stratosphere to take cleaner pictures of the sun. The name was suggested by F. K. Edmondson.Discovered 28 October 1954 by Indiana University, Brooklyn
(5171) Augustesen
Karl A. Augustesen (b. 1945) has for several decades been the observer at the Schmidt telescope erected at Brorfelde in 1965.Discovered 25 September 1987 by P. Jensen, Brorfelde
(6059) Diefenbach
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach (1851-1913) was a German painter and philosopher. He was a pioneer of the healthy lifestyle, but was not understood by his contemporaries.Discovered 11 October 1979 by Z. Vavrova, Klet
(6597) Kreil
Karl Kreil (1798-1862), the sixth director of the Klementinum observatory in Prague, carried out geomagnetic measurements in the Austro-Hungarian empire. He was later director of the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geomagnetism in Vienna. The name was suggested by J. Ticha and M. Šolc.Discovered 9 January 1988 by A. Mrkos, Klet
(6712) Hornstein
Karl Hornstein (1824-1882), the eighth director of the Klementinum observatory in Prague, studied the orbits of minor planets, including the irregularities in their distribution that were later called the Kirkwood gaps. The name was suggested by J. Ticha and M. Šolc.Discovered 23 February 1990 by A. Mrkos, Klet
(10099) Glazebrook
An astronomer at Johns Hopkins University, Karl Glazebrook (b. 1965) is a specialist on the properties and evolution of faint high-redshift galaxies and large redshift surveys of nearby galaxies. His public domain astronomical software greatly aided the Spacewatch survey during its 1997 upgrades.Discovered 4 November 1991 by Spacewatch, Kitt Peak
(11434) Lohnert
Karl Julius Lohnert (1885-1944) worked from 1905 to 1907 as an assistant of Max Wolf and discovered four now-numbered minor planets. Lohnert studied psychology in Leipzig and earned his doctorate under Wilhelm Wundt, honoring his mentor by the naming of (635) Vundtia. Name proposed by L. D. Schmadel.Discovered 10 October 1931 by K. Reinmuth, Heidelberg
(13816) Stulpner
Karl Stülpner (1762-1841), a popular hero of Germany's Ore Mountains, lived in Scharfenstein, near Drebach. He and his group of hunters wandered through the Saxonian and Bohemian Ore mountains providing order and justice and helping those in need.Discovered 29 December 1998 by J. Kandler, Drebach
(13977) Frisch
Austrian zoologist Karl Ritter von Frisch (1886-1982) did fundamental investigations on fish and honey-bees. He studied the orientation of bees following colors, shapes, odors, the sun and polarized light. He received the 1973 Nobel prize for medicine.Discovered 29 April 1992 by F. Borngen, Tautenburg
(14014) Munchhausen
Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen (1720-1797), also known as the “lies baron”, was a member of a German noble lineage, first mentioned in 1183. He was an excellent narrator of anecdotes and exaggerated adventure stories, which later were captured in novels, plays and films.Discovered 14 January 1994 by F. Borngen, Tautenburg
(14100) Weierstrass
Karl Weierstrass (1815-1897) was a very influential professor of mathematics at the University of Berlin. His work was characterized by great rigor. His major contributions are the concept of analytic continuation and the foundation of the theory of complex functions on the power series.Discovered 8 September 1997 by P. G. Comba, Prescott
(15728) Karlmay
Karl May (1842-1912), Saxonian author of splendid fantasies, began with country stories out of his Erzgebirge home. His fascinating, exotic and colorful adventure novels were placed mostly in North America's Wild West and in the Far East. They became very popular and were translated into more than 25 languages.Discovered 11 October 1990 by Borngen, F., Schmadel, L. D., Tautenburg
(16135) Ivarsson
Karl R. Ivarsson (b. 1939) was a vertical transportation specialist in Los Angeles for 37 years. He helped design and construct roll-off structures at the Fountain Hills Observatory in Arizona, where this minor planet was discovered.Discovered 9 December 1999 by C. W. Juels, Fountain Hills
(16459) Barth
The Swiss Protestant Reformed theologian Karl Barth (1886-1968), ousted from his post in Germany, was professor in Basel beginning in 1935. In Germany, he is known as the “Vater der Bekennende Kirche”. His main works are The Epistle to the Romans and Ecclesiastical Dogmatics.Discovered 28 November 1989 by F. Borngen, Tautenburg
(18412) Kruszelnicki
Karl Kruszelnicki (b. 1948) is an Australian science communicator. For over 30 years he has presented science talkback radio, has been a regular on television and stage, and is one of the “The Sleek Geeks” science comedy duo. He is a Julius Sumner Miller Fellow at the School of Physics, University of Sydney.Discovered 13 June 1993 by R. H. McNaught, Siding Spring
(21110) Karlvalentin
A Bavarian comedian, writer and film actor, Karl Valentin (Valentin Ludwig Fey, 1882-1948) had great success as a cabaret artist with his partner Liesl Karlstadt. He showed the universal powerlessness of the individual in comic sketches of abstract, absurd logic. The name was suggested by the first discoverer.Discovered 4 September 1992 by Borngen, F., Schmadel, L. D., Tautenburg
(21356) Karlplank
Karl James Plank (b. 1987) is a finalist in the 2005 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors, for his chemistry project. He attends the Squalicum High School, Bellingham, Washington.Discovered 31 March 1997 by LINEAR, Socorro
(23865) Karlsorensen
Karl Mikael Sorensen (b. 1993) is a finalist in the 2007 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), a middle school science competition, for his botany and zoology project. He is a member of the Home Educators of the New River Valley, Pearisburg, Virginia.Discovered 14 September 1998 by LINEAR, Socorro
(25958) Battams
Karl Battams (b. 1979) is an astrophysicist and computational scientist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. He has been in charge of the Sungrazer Project since 2003, overseeing most of the project's 3400+ sungrazing comet discoveries, and has contributed to the study of numerous near-Sun comets.Discovered 19 March 2001 by LONEOS, Anderson Mesa
(29458) Pearson
Karl Pearson (1857-1936) was a professor of mathematics and mechanics at University College, London, and later the Galton professor of eugenics. A man of great erudition, he is one of the founders of the modern theory of statistics.Discovered 30 September 1997 by P. G. Comba, Prescott
(30417) Staudt
Karl Georg Christian von Staudt (1798-1867), a professor at the University of Erlangen, gave the first fully rigorous treatment of projective geometry, without making use of distances, perpendiculars and angles.Discovered 1 June 2000 by P. G. Comba, Prescott
(48435) Jaspers
Philosopher, physician and political thinker Karl Jaspers (1883-1969) is an important representative of Existential philosophy in the German language. After World War II he lived in Switzerland. His thought is expressed in The Perennial Scope of Philosophy, Of Truth and about 30 other books.Discovered 23 October 1989 by F. Borngen, Tautenburg
(58736) Karlantier
Karl Antier (b. 1983) is a French expert in meteor and meteorite science. He is an active member of the International Meteor Organization and of the FRIPON/Vigie Ciel Citizen Science program in France. He raises public awareness of the scientific importance of finding and protecting meteorites. Karl loves to share his knowledge and passion for astronomy.Discovered 1 March 1998 by ODAS, Caussols
(129061) Karlfortney
Karl Fortney (b. 1962) is the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft Mechanisms Certified Principal Engineer. He was a mechanical engineer on the MAVEN and Juno missions as well as the MSL Aeroshell.Discovered 4 November 2004 by CSS, Catalina
(129330) Karlharshman
Karl Harshman (b. 1957) served as the lead software engineer on the OCAMS camera and as the Science Processing Operations Center Manager for the OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission.Discovered 22 October 2005 by CSS, Catalina
(201023) Karlwhittenburg
Karl E. Whittenburg (b. 1966) is a mission operations engineer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. He served as the Deputy Mission Operations Manager for the New Horizons Mission to Pluto.Discovered 8 February 2002 by M. W. Buie, Kitt Peak
(204852) Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main, birthplace of Goethe, Karl Schwarzschild and Otto Hahn, is the largest city in the German State of Hessen and the location of the European Central Bank.Discovered 15 September 2007 by Schwab, E., Kling, R., Taunus
(216164) Simonkrughoff
Karl Simon Krughoff (1976–2023) was an American astronomer known for his work on the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), later the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. Simon was noted for his dedication to science, his colleagues, and most importantly his family.Discovered 17 September 2006 by A. C. Becker, Apache Point
(332706) Karlheidlas
Karl Heidlas (b. 1932) is a German chemist and amateur astronomer, dedicated to popularizing astronomy and sciences. For more than 20 years he was head of the public observatory in Aachen, where he was responsible for the reconstruction and preservation of one of Germany's oldest public astronomical observatories.Discovered 13 September 2009 by ESA OGS, ESA OGS
(660798) Karltreusch
Karl Treusch (1906–1995) was a German Jesuit brother, a versatile specialist in Zeiss telescopes, and mechanical designer of the first precision photometer for observing variable stars at Vatican Observatory, where he worked until 1978.Discovered 21 February 2012 by R. P. Boyle K. Äernis, Mount Graham