Otto Kippes
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Otto Kippes (23 July 1905 – 2 February 1994) was a
Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in 1991.[1]
In 1959, the
main belt asteroid 1780 Kippes was named in his honour.[3] Kippes in turn had successfully proposed to name several asteroids after fellow amateur astronomers. He died on 2 February 1994 in Würzburg
, Bavaria.
See also
- List of Roman Catholic scientist-clerics
References
- ^ "ASP: Past Amateur Achievement Winners". www.astrosociety.org.
- ^ http://www.nd-archiv.de/ausgabe/1959-07-03 Online.
- ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7.
- Lehmann, Gerhard; Jens Kandler; André Knöfel (27 October 2004). "Amateurastronomen am Sternenhimmel". Retrieved 2008-12-21.
- Kowalski, Richard. "Stručná historie výzkumu planetek-význam amatérů". Corona Pragensis (2001/6): 7–8. Archived from the original on 2007-08-18. Retrieved 2007-08-22.
- "Past Amateur Achievement Winners". Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Retrieved 2007-08-22.
- "1780 Kippes (A906 RA)". JPL Small-Body Database Browser. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 2008-12-21.
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