Asteroids named after people called Moriz
(12568) Kuffner
Moriz von Kuffner (1854-1939) was a brewer, alpinist and the founder of a private observatory in Vienna. The Kuffner Observatory was a leading scientific institution in the late nineteenth century and is now used for public education. It is serving as host for the May 2006 Meeting on Asteroids and Comets in Europe.Discovered 11 November 1998 by K. Korlevic, Visnjan