Sebastian Florian Hönig is a DFG

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft is an important German research funding organization and the largest such organization in Europe.-Function:...

 fellow in the astrophysics group of the University of California, Santa Barbara

University of California, Santa Barbara

The University of California, Santa Barbara, commonly known as UCSB or UC Santa Barbara, is a public research university and one of the 10 general campuses of the University of California system. The main campus is located on a site in Goleta, California, from Santa Barbara and northwest of Los...

 Physics Department from Dossenheim

Dossenheim

Dossenheim is a municipality in the Rhein-Neckar in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.It is located on Bergstrasse and Bertha Benz Memorial Route.-Location:...

, Germany

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...

. He works on active galactic nuclei and the theory of dust tori. Hönig has identified numerous asteroids and correctly identified the periodic comet P/2007 R5 despite it having no tail.
July 22 2002 discovery comet C/2002 O4. Discovery 477 asteroids.

Links

• Homepage of Sebastian Hönig
• Identification of a new short-period comet near the sun, Sebastian F. Hoenig, arXiv:astro-ph/0509168
• MPEC 2002-O45 : COMET C/2002 O4 (HOENIG)
• SOHO Mission Discovers Rare Comet
• Astronomers Spot New Halley-Like Comet
• SOHO's new catch: its first officially periodic comet