Arno Arthur Wachmann
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Asteroid
Asteroid
Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...

s discovered: 3
1465 Autonoma
1465 Autonoma
1465 Autonoma is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 20, 1938 by Wachmann, A. at Bergedorf.- External links :*...

 
March 20, 1938
1501 Baade
1501 Baade
1501 Baade is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 20, 1938 by Wachmann, A. at Bergedorf.- External links :*...

 
October 20, 1938
1586 Thiele
1586 Thiele
1586 Thiele is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 13, 1939 by A. Wachmann at Bergedorf.- External links :*...

 
February 13, 1939

Arthur Arno Wachmann (March 8, 1902 – July 24, 1990) was a German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 astronomer
Astronomer
An astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as planets, stars and galaxies.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using...

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With Arnold Schwassmann he co-discovered the periodic comet
Comet
A comet is an icy small Solar System body that, when close enough to the Sun, displays a visible coma and sometimes also a tail. These phenomena are both due to the effects of solar radiation and the solar wind upon the nucleus of the comet...

s 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann
29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann
Comet 29P/Schwassmann–Wachmann, also known as Schwassmann–Wachmann 1, was discovered on November 15, 1927, by Arnold Schwassmann and Arno Arthur Wachmann at the Hamburg Observatory in Bergedorf, Germany. It was discovered photographically, when the comet was in outburst and the magnitude was about 13...

, 31P/Schwassmann-Wachmann
31P/Schwassmann-Wachmann
31P/Schwassmann–Wachmann, also known as Schwassmann–Wachmann 2, is a periodic comet in our solar system. It was discovered on January 17, 1929, at an apparent magnitude of 11. The comet has been seen at every apparition....

 and 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann
73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann
73P/Schwassmann–Wachmann, also known as Schwassmann–Wachmann 3, is a periodic comet in our solar system which is in the process of disintegrating. Starting the 2011 perihelion passage the primary component 73P-C was recovered on 28 November 2010 near apparent magnitude 21.3...

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