Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld

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Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld
Minor planets
SpouseCornelis Johannes van Houten
ChildrenKarel van Houten
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy
InstitutionsLeiden Observatory
Palomar Observatory
Minor planets discovered: 4644 [2]
see § List of discovered minor planets

Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɪŋɡrɪt fɑn ˈɦʌutə(ŋ) ˈɣrunəˌvɛlt];[3] 21 October 1921 – 30 March 2015) was a Dutch astronomer.

Background

In a jointly credited trio with Tom Gehrels and her husband Cornelis Johannes van Houten, she was the discoverer of many thousands of asteroids (credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 4,641 numbered minor planets).[2] In the Palomar–Leiden survey, Gehrels took the images using the 48-inch Schmidt telescope at Palomar Observatory and shipped the photographic plates to the van Houtens at Leiden Observatory, who analyzed them for new asteroids. The trio are jointly credited with several thousand asteroid discoveries.[4][5] Van Houten-Groeneveld died on 30 March 2015, at the age of 93, in Oegstgeest, Netherlands.[6]

The

M.P.C. 2901).[7]

Publications

References

  1. ^ Groeneveld, Ingrid (1957). "Mitteilungen, Nummers 9-16". Veroeffentlichungen der Badischen Landes-Sternwarte zu Heidelberg (in German). 14 (5): 75.
  2. ^ a b "Minor Planet Discoverers (by number)". Minor Planet Center. 24 May 2019. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
  3. ^ In isolation, van and Houten are pronounced [vɑn] and [ˈɦʌutə(n)], respectively.
  4. ^ "SETI Institute - Long-Lost, Dangerous Asteroid Is Found Again". Seti.org. 4 October 2007. Archived from the original on 15 June 2011. Retrieved 3 December 2010.
  5. . Retrieved 3 December 2010.
  6. ^ "Leidse sterrenkundige Ingrid van Houten overleden (21 oktober 1921-30 maart 2015)". Astronomie.nl (in Dutch). 2015. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
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