Hans-Emil Schuster

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Hans-Emil Schuster
Hans-Emil Schuster (2011)
Hans-Emil Schuster (2011)
Born (1934-09-19) 19 September 1934 (age 89)
Hamburg, Germany
OccupationAstronomer
NationalityGerman
Minor planets discovered: 25 [1]
see § List of discovered minor planets

Hans-Emil Schuster (born 19 September 1934 in Hamburg) is a German astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets and comets, who retired in October 1991. He worked at Hamburg Observatory at Bergedorf and European Southern Observatory (ESO), and was former acting director of La Silla Observatory. From 1982 he was married to Rosemarie Schuster née von Holt (28 March 1935 – 18 September 2006)

He discovered periodic

perihelion distance of 6.88 AU [1] [2]
, the largest yet observed at the time.

He discovered 25

near-Earth asteroid 161989 Cacus
, which was lost and not recovered until 2003.

Schuster participated in the exploration, selection and testing of the sites of two ESO observatories: La Silla Observatory and Paranal Observatory (the latter is the VLT site).

He also participated in two ESO Southern Sky Surveys: the ESO-B survey ("Quick-Blue Survey") completed in 1978 was the first deep optical survey of the southern sky; and the "Red Sky Survey". Photographic plates were taken with the ESO's 1-meter Schmidt Telescope at La Silla.

He co-discovered the

Richard M. West), and in 1976 also discovered the Eridanus Globular Cluster, one of the most distant globular clusters in the galactic halo. In 1980, he discovered a type-II supernova in the galaxy NGC 1255. However, "Schuster's Spiral" (Horologium Dwarf
) is not named after him, but a different Schuster.

Honours

The

2018 Schuster was named in his honour. On 21 October 2011 he was awarded the rank of Commander of the Order of Bernardo O'Higgins
in recognition of his important contribution to astronomy in Chile.

List of discovered minor planets

See also: Category:Discoveries by Hans-Emil Schuster
2105 Gudy
 29 February 1976 list
2234 Schmadel
 27 April 1977 list
2275 Cuitlahuac
 16 June 1979 list
2329 Orthos
 19 November 1976 list
2608 Seneca 17 February 1978 list
3266 Bernardus
 11 August 1978 list
3271 Ul
 14 September 1982 list
3288 Seleucus 28 February 1982 list
3398 Stättmayer
 10 August 1978 list
3496 Arieso
 5 September 1977 list
3908 Nyx 6 August 1980 list
4761 Urrutia
 27 August 1981 list
6163 Reimers
 16 March 1977 list
6261 Chione
 30 November 1976 list
6847 Kunz-Hallstein
 5 September 1977 list
7215 Gerhard
 16 March 1977 list
10454 Vallenar
 9 July 1978 list
10669 Herfordia
 16 March 1977 list
11001 Andrewulff
 16 June 1979 list
11789 Kempowski
 5 September 1977 list
12211 Arnoschmidt
 28 May 1981 list
26074 Carlwirtz 8 October 1977 list
46514 Lasswitz
 15 May 1977 list
73640 Biermann
 5 September 1977 list
161989 Cacus 8 February 1978 list

See also

References

  1. ^ "Minor Planet Discoverers (by number)". Minor Planet Center. 14 November 2016. Retrieved 21 November 2016.

External links

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