Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann Explained

Minor planets discovered: 22
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Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann (25 March 1870 – 19 January 1964) was a German astronomer and a discoverer of 22 minor planets and 4 comets, who worked at AOP in Potsdam and at Bergedorf Observatory in Hamburg.

He was co-discoverer with Arno Arthur Wachmann of the periodic comets 29P/Schwassmann–Wachmann, 31P/Schwassmann–Wachmann and 73P/Schwassmann–Wachmann, and with Arno Arthur Wachmann and Leslie Peltier of the non-periodic comet C/1930 D1 (Peltier–Schwassmann–Wachmann). The main-belt asteroid 989 Schwassmannia, discovered by himself in 1922, was later named in his honor .

List of discovered minor planets

435 Ella	11 September 1898
436 Patricia	13 September 1898
442 Eichsfeldia	15 February 1899
443 Photographica	17 February 1899
446 Aeternitas	27 October 1899
447 Valentine	27 October 1899
448 Natalie	27 October 1899
449 Hamburga	31 October 1899
450 Brigitta	10 October 1899
454 Mathesis	28 March 1900

455 Bruchsalia	22 May 1900
456 Abnoba	4 June 1900
457 Alleghenia	15 September 1900
458 Hercynia	21 September 1900
905 Universitas	30 October 1918
906 Repsolda	30 October 1918
912 Maritima	27 April 1919
947 Monterosa	8 February 1921
989 Schwassmannia	18 November 1922
1192 Prisma	17 March 1931

1303 Luthera	16 March 1928
1310 Villigera	28 February 1932
Co-discovery made with: M. F. Wolf

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