Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann
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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: 22
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| 436 Patricia
436 Patricia
436 Patricia is a large Main belt asteroid.It was discovered by Max Wolf and A. Schwassmann on September 13, 1898 in Heidelberg....

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| 442 Eichsfeldia
442 Eichsfeldia
442 Eichsfeldia is a large Main belt asteroid. It is classified as a C-type asteroid and is probably composed of primitive carbonaceous material.It was discovered by Max Wolf and A...

|| February 15, 1899
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| 443 Photographica
443 Photographica
443 Photographica is a typical Main belt asteroid. It is classified as an S-type asteroid.It was discovered by Max Wolf and A. Schwassmann on February 17, 1899 in Heidelberg....

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| 446 Aeternitas
446 Aeternitas
446 Aeternitas is a main belt asteroid. It is classified as an A-type asteroid.It was discovered by Max Wolf and A. Schwassmann on October 27, 1899 in Heidelberg....

|| October 27, 1899
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| 447 Valentine
447 Valentine
447 Valentine is a large Main belt asteroid.It was discovered by Max Wolf and A. Schwassmann on October 27, 1899 in Heidelberg....

|| October 27, 1899
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| 448 Natalie
448 Natalie
448 Natalie is a typical Main belt asteroid.It was discovered by Max Wolf and A. Schwassmann on October 27, 1899 in Heidelberg....

|| October 27, 1899
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| 449 Hamburga
449 Hamburga
449 Hamburga is a large Main belt asteroid. It is classified as a C-type asteroid and is probably composed of carbonaceous material.It was discovered by Max Wolf and A. Schwassmann on October 31, 1899 in Heidelberg....

|| October 31, 1899
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| 450 Brigitta
450 Brigitta
450 Brigitta is a typical Main belt asteroid.It was discovered by Max Wolf and A. Schwassmann on October 10, 1899 in Heidelberg....

|| October 10, 1899
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| 454 Mathesis
454 Mathesis
454 Mathesis is an asteroid. It was discovered by Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann on March 28, 1900. Its provisional name was 1900 FC....

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| 455 Bruchsalia
455 Bruchsalia
455 Bruchsalia is an asteroid. It was discovered by Max Wolf and Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann on May 22, 1900. Its provisional name was 1900 FG....

|| May 22, 1900
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| 456 Abnoba
456 Abnoba
456 Abnoba is an asteroid. It was discovered by Max Wolf and Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann on June 4, 1900. Its provisional name was 1900 FH....

|| June 4, 1900
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| 457 Alleghenia
457 Alleghenia
457 Alleghenia is an asteroid. It was discovered by Max Wolf and Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann on September 15, 1900. Its provisional name was 1900 FJ....

|| September 15, 1900
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| 458 Hercynia
458 Hercynia
458 Hercynia is an asteroid. It was discovered by Max Wolf and Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann on September 21, 1900. Its provisional name was 1900 FK....

|| September 21, 1900
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| 905 Universitas
905 Universitas
905 Universitas is an S-type asteroid orbiting in the Main belt as part of the Flora family. Its diameter is about 21 km and it has an albedo of 0.085 . Its rotation period is approximately 10 hours-External links:*...

 || October 30, 1918
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| 906 Repsolda
906 Repsolda
906 Repsolda is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It is named for the German astronomer and fireman Johann Georg Repsold who founded and ran Hamburg Observatory.-External links:*...

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| 912 Maritima
912 Maritima
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 || April 27, 1919
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| 947 Monterosa
947 Monterosa
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 || February 8, 1921
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| 989 Schwassmannia
989 Schwassmannia
989 Schwassmannia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.-External links:*...

 || November 18, 1922
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| 1192 Prisma
1192 Prisma
1192 Prisma is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 17, 1931 by Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann at Bergedorf.- External links :*...

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| 1303 Luthera
1303 Luthera
1303 Luthera is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on March 16, 1928 by Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann at Hamburg-Bergedorf Observatory.- External links :*...

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| 1310 Villigera
1310 Villigera
1310 Villigera is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1352.5526557 days . The asteroid was discovered on February 28, 1932.-References:...

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    Max Wolf
    Maximilian Franz Joseph Cornelius Wolf was a German astronomer and a pioneer in the field of astrophotography...


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Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann (March 25, 1870 – January 19, 1964) 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...

.

He was co-discoverer with Arno Arthur Wachmann
Arno Arthur Wachmann
Arthur Arno Wachmann was a German astronomer.With Arnold Schwassmann he co-discovered the periodic comets 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann, 31P/Schwassmann-Wachmann and 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann....

 of 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...

, and with Arno Arthur Wachmann
Arno Arthur Wachmann
Arthur Arno Wachmann was a German astronomer.With Arnold Schwassmann he co-discovered the periodic comets 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann, 31P/Schwassmann-Wachmann and 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann....

 and Leslie Peltier
Leslie Peltier
Leslie Copus Peltier was an American astronomer.He was born in Delphos, Ohio. An amateur astronomer, he was a prolific discoverer of comets and also a persistent observer of variable stars and member of the AAVSO...

 of the non-periodic comet C/1930 D1 (Peltier-Schwassmann-Wachmann).
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