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The first minor planet discovery at the Taunus Observatory
On 2006-11-27 Erwin Schwab and Rainer Kling discovered the minor planet 2006 WV129.
It was the first minor planet discovered at an observatory of the Association Physikalischen Verein.
With this discovery, an ancient tradition of the association was continued.
Because at the beginning of the 20th century the Physikalischen Verein operated the Planeten Institut,
which was one of the world's first Minor Planet Centers. The works at that time were essentially theoretical, dealing with the calculation of the orbits.
2006 WV129, which now has the name Neeffisis, was the first minor planet discovered in the more than 180-years
history of the association. The name Neeffisis is a combination of Christian Ernst Neeff and the goddess Isis.
Christian Ernst Neeff was co-founder of the association Physikalischen Verein in 1824 and its first president.
The emblem of the association is the goddess Isis.
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Orbit
of minor planet (224831) Neeffisis |
Discovery of a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA)
On 2009-02-25 we were able to discover one of the rare dangerous near-Earth asteroids.
2009 DM45 has a diameter of about 150 meters and approached the earth at a distance of only 5.7 times the Moon distance.
It was the 5th discovery of a dangerous asteroid from a German observatory.
| Discovery history (in German) and discovery photos of the hazardous asteroid
2009 DM45 |
Frankfurt also in the sky - the first naming of one of our discoveries
The first minor planet, for which we submitted a naming proposal
follows the name (204852) Frankfurt.
It was published on 2009 April 9. in the Minor Planet Circular # 65714.
Erwin Schwab and Rainer Kling were honored with a minor planet naming
The spanish Observatorio de la Sagra honored the two initiators of the Taunus Observatory astrometry project.
The minor planets (185638) Erwin Schwab and (185639) Rainer Kling were named after them.
On 2009 June 7. the new minor planet names were published in the Minor Planet Circular # 66244.
Astronomy award
On July 8, 2009, Stefan Karge, Rainer Kling, Erwin Schwab and Ute Zimmer
received an award for their achievements in the field of astronomy from the association Physikalischer Verein for the work
"astrometry of solar system objects and the discoveries of asteroids".
Numbered and named minor planets
135 minor planets were discovered in the timespan from 2006 to 2011 (updated 2024-10-02) to the astronomers of the Taunus Observatory.
With this discovery rate the Taunus Observatory is on 4th place of the German observatories (including the professional observatories).
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