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| 538 Friederike

538 Friederike

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 || July 18, 1904
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| 542 Susanna || August 15, 1904
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| 543 Charlotte

543 Charlotte

543 Charlotte is a minor planet orbiting the Sun....

 || September 11, 1904
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| 544 Jetta

544 Jetta

544 Jetta is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It is estimated to be 12 km in diameter.- References :*...

 || September 11, 1904
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| 545 Messalina

545 Messalina

545 Messalina is a minor planet orbiting the Sun....

 || October 3, 1904
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| 546 Herodias

546 Herodias

546 Herodias is a C-type asteroid orbiting in the Main belt near the Eunomia family. However, it is not a family member but an un-related interloper in the region because its composition is inconsistent with membership. Its diameter is about 66 km, its albedo around 0.053, and its rotation...

 || October 10, 1904
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| 547 Praxedis

547 Praxedis

547 Praxedis is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.This asteroid was named after a character in Joseph Viktor von Scheffel's Ekkehard....

 || October 14, 1904
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| 548 Kressida

548 Kressida

548 Kressida is a minor planet orbiting the Sun....

 || October 14, 1904
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| 554 Peraga

554 Peraga

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 || January 8, 1905
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| 556 Phyllis

556 Phyllis

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 || January 8, 1905
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| 563 Suleika

563 Suleika

563 Suleika is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. Previously designated as 1905 QK, it was discovered by Paul Götz on April 6, 1905 from Heidelberg, Germany.-External links:*...

 || April 6, 1905
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| 564 Dudu

564 Dudu

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 || May 9, 1905
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| 566 Stereoskopia

566 Stereoskopia

566 Stereoskopia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It is a member of the Cybele group located beyond the core of the main belt . It is 168 km in diameter with a 12.1 hour rotation period.-External links:*...

 || May 28, 1905
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| 567 Eleutheria

567 Eleutheria

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 || May 28, 1905
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| 568 Cheruskia

568 Cheruskia

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 || July 26, 1905
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| 571 Dulcinea

571 Dulcinea

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 || September 4, 1905
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| 572 Rebekka

572 Rebekka

572 Rebekka is a minor planet orbiting the Sun, which was discovered on September 19, 1905, by a German astronomer Paul Götz in Heidelberg.It was named after a young lady from Heidelberg.-External links:*...

 || September 19, 1905
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| 576 Emanuela

576 Emanuela

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 || September 22, 1905
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| 1418 Fayeta

1418 Fayeta

1418 Fayeta is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 22, 1903 by Paul Götz at Heidelberg.- External links :*...

 || September 22, 1903
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with Max Wolf

Max Wolf

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

with August Kopff

August Kopff

August Kopff was a German astronomer who discovered several comets and asteroids. He worked in Heidelberg, then joined the Humboldt University of Berlin where he became the Director of the Institute for Astronomical Calculation.He discovered some comets, including periodic comet 22P/Kopff and the...

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Paul Götz was an 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 did his Ph.D. dissertation in 1907 at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl (Königstuhl Observatory, near Heidelberg) at the University of Heidelberg.

At the time, the observatory at Heidelberg was a center for 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...

 discovery under the direction of Max Wolf

Max Wolf

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

, and several past and future fellow Ph.D.s (Raymond Smith Dugan

Raymond Smith Dugan

Raymond Smith Dugan was an American astronomer and a graduate of Amherst College in Massachusetts .Dugan obtained his Masters Degree from Amherst College in 1902, and then received his Ph.D...

, Joseph Helffrich

Joseph Helffrich

Joseph Helffrich was a German astronomer.He did his Ph.D. dissertation in 1913 at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl at the University of Heidelberg ....

, Franz Kaiser

Franz Kaiser

Franz Kaiser was a German astronomer.He worked at the Heidelberg-Königstuhl Observatory from 1911 to 1914 while working on his Ph.D. there, which he obtained in 1915. During this time Heidelberg was a center of asteroid discovery, and Kaiser discovered a number of asteroids during his time...

, Karl Reinmuth, Emil Ernst

Emil Ernst

Emil Ernst was a German astronomer.He did his Ph.D. dissertation in 1918 at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl at the University of Heidelberg....

, Alfred Bohrmann

Alfred Bohrmann

Alfred Bohrmann was a German astronomer.He did his Ph.D. dissertation in 1927 at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl at the University of Heidelberg....

) made a number of asteroid discoveries. Thus the asteroid discoveries by "P. Gotz" at Heidelberg in this time frame are undoubtedly identified with the Paul Götz who got his Ph.D. in 1907.

The asteroid 2278 Götz

2278 Götz

2278 Götz is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1402.5368931 days .The asteroid was discovered on April 7, 1953.-References:...

is named after him.