Asteroids named after people called Machiel
馃懚 Machiel as a baby name
Machiel Alberts (b. 1909) was the first astronomer in The Netherlands to succeed, with a home-built camera, to capture a meteor on film. He was actively engaged in meteor observations, as well as in building appliances and instruments for amateur astronomers to enable meteor photography and other types of meteor observation.Discovered 26 September 1960 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T., Palomar
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