Asteroids named after people called Per
👶 Per as a baby name
Named in memory of the Swedish count Per Brahe (1602-1680), who was governor general of Finland. The “count's epoch” was a happy era, with the establishment of Academia Aboensis, the first university in Finland, the construction of various new towns and many schools, and the publication of the first Finnish Bible.Discovered 12 February 1942 by L. Oterma, Turku
Named for a Finnish town, founded by Per Brahe in 1649 on an ancient market place near Oulu.Discovered 9 October 1948 by H. Alikoski, Turku
Per Klemm (1949-2011) is a Danish professor of microbiology whose work focused on bacterial adhesins, transcriptomics and comparative genomics of pathogenic E. coli and development of anti-microbial drugs.Discovered 7 November 1978 by Helin, E. F., Bus, S. J., Palomar
Per Olow Karlsson (b. 1934) is a skillful technician who worked at the Uppsala and Kvistaberg Observatories for many years.Discovered 21 March 1993 by UESAC, La Silla
Per Arvid Säve (1811-1887) was a teacher in Visby who dedicated most of his spare time to research on the dialects and folklore of Gotland. He also founded a museum in Visby, Fornsalen.Discovered 21 March 1993 by UESAC, La Silla
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