Holger Thiele was a Danish American astronomer

Astronomer

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Asteroid

Asteroid

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s discovered: 4

797 Montana 797 Montana -External links:*...	November 17, 1914
843 Nicolaia 843 Nicolaia 843 Nicolaia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was a lost asteroid for 65 years before being rediscovered by Heidelberg Astronomisches Rechen-Institut in 1981. -External links:* -External links:...	September 30, 1916
1847 Stobbe 1847 Stobbe 1847 Stobbe is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 1, 1916 by H. Thiele at Bergedorf.- External links :*...	February 1, 1916
3229 Solnhofen 3229 Solnhofen 3229 Solnhofen is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 9, 1916 by H. Thiele at Bergedorf.- External links :*...	August 9, 1916

Background

Holger Thiele was the son of Thorvald Nicolai Thiele, the noted Danish astronomer, actuary and mathematician, after whom the Asteroid belt

Asteroid belt

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 1586 Thiele

1586 Thiele

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

 is named.

Career

Holger Thiele discovered a number of asteroid

Asteroid

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s. He also discovered the comet

Comet

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 C/1906 V1 and calculated the orbits of other comets. He worked at Hamburg-Bergedorf Observatory

Hamburg-Bergedorf Observatory

Hamburger Sternwarte is an astronomical observatory located in the Bergedorf borough of the city of Hamburg in northern Germany. It is owned and operated by the University of Hamburg, Germany since 1968, although it was founded in 1825 by the City of Hamburg and moved to its present location in...

 at Bergedorf

Bergedorf

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, in Hamburg, Germany. He immigrated to the United States

United States

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 during 1912.
In 1917, he started working as a fellow for the University of California

University of California

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 at Lick Observatory

Lick Observatory

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, near San Jose, California

San Jose, California

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. During 1946. Holger Thiele died in Alameda County, California

Alameda County, California

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Selected works

• Corrected elements and ephemeris of minor planet 1924 TD (Baade) (University of California Press. 1925)
• Elements and ephemeris of Comet d 1927 (Stearns) (University of California Press. 1927)