August Kopff
August Kopff (born February 5, 1882 in Heidelberg , † April 25, 1960 in Heidelberg) was a German astronomer and discoverer of many asteroids (minor planets).
Life
From 1924 to 1954 he was the 18th director of the Astronomical Computing Institute (ARI), initially in Berlin and from 1945 in Heidelberg .
Kopff discovered Kopff's comet in 1906 , also known from a rendezvous of the Galileo space probe , and 66 asteroids between 1905 and 1909 , and he was also the co-discoverer of two other asteroids.
The lunar crater Kopff and the asteroid (1631) Kopff were named after him. Since 1933 he was a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1936 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . The Prussian Academy of Sciences he was also since 1936 as a member. He was accepted into the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences in 1947. From 1939 to 1945 Kopff was chairman of the Astronomical Society .
Discoveries
The asteroids he discovered include:
- (579) Sidonia
- (582) Olympia
- (584) Semiramis
- (585) Bilkis
- (589) Croatia
- (591) Irmgard
- (593) Titania
- (595) Polyxena
- (596) Scheila
- (606) Brangäne
- (607) Jenny
- (608) Adolfine
- (612) Veronica
- (613) Ginevra
- (614) Pia
- (615) Roswitha
- (616) Elly
- (617) Patroclus
- (619) Triberga
- (621) Werdandi
- (624) Hector
- (625) Xenia
- (626) Notburga
- (627) Charis
- (628) Christine
- (634) Ute
- (667) Denise
- (677) Aaltje
literature
- Friedrich Gondolatsch: Kopff, August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 564 ( digitized version ).
- Roland Wielen / Ute Wielen: From Berlin to Sermuthn to Heidelberg. The fate of the Astronomical Computing Institute in the period from 1924 to 1954 based on documents from the institute's archive, Diss. Heidelberg 2012 https://d-nb.info/1181195357/34
Web links
- Literature by and about August Kopff in the catalog of the German National Library
- Publications by A. Kopff in the Astrophysics Data System
- Obituaries for A. Kopff in the Astrophysics Data System
Individual evidence
- ↑ TH Sweetser, K. Kiedron: The Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby Mission to Comet Kopff: Getting There is Half the Fun. AAS 89-464, (Volume 71, Advances in the Astronautical Sciences, Astrodynamics 1989), 1133.
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 137.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kopff, August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kopff, August Adelbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German astronomer and discoverer of many asteroids |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 5, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heidelberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 25, 1960 |
| Place of death | Heidelberg |