Kazimierz Kordylewski
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox scientist Kazimierz Kordylewski (born 11 October 1903 – 11 March 1981) was a Polish astronomer. He is known for his discovery of the Kordylewski clouds, two clouds of dust concentrated at the Moon's Template:L4 and Template:L5 Lagrange points.
Kazimierz Kordylewski was born on 11 October 1903 in Poznań to Francizska and Władysław Kordylewski. He attended Saint Mary Magdelene High School, where he graduated in 1922, before studying for two years at the University of Poznań. He moved to the Jagiellonian University in 1924, and earned a PhD degree in 1932.<ref name="Hockey2009">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="KordylewskiBiography">Template:Cite book</ref>
Kordylewski was employed at the astronomical observatory of the Jagiellonian University as a junior assistant, where he worked near-continuously until his retirement in 1974. He worked frequently with eclipsing variable stars, taking over 40,000 measurements of such stars throughout his life. In December 1925, while taking observations of the eclipsing variable S Corvi, Kordylewski discovered a previously unknown variable star. Further observations determined the star to be a Mira variable, whose very red color allowed it to escape prior detection on photographic plates.<ref name="KordylewskiBiography"/>Template:Rp The next year, he discovered the nova T Corvi.<ref name="Hockey2009"/>
Starting in 1951, Kordylewski began searching for trojan satellites in the Moon's L4 (leading) and L5 (trailing) points.<ref name="Hockey2009"/> In 1956, he claimed the discovery of the Kordylewski clouds, large transient concentrations of dust at the Trojan points of the Earth–Moon system, which were reported to have been confirmed to exist in October 2018.<ref name="EA-20181026">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="MN-RAS-20181111">Template:Cite journal</ref><ref name="MN-RAS-20190101">Template:Cite journal</ref>
Kordylewski married Jadwiga Pajak in 1929, and with her had four children.<ref name="Hockey2009"/> He died suddenly on 11 March 1981 in Kraków, Poland.<ref name="KordylewskiBiography"/>Template:Rp
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- A page about Kazimierz Kordylewski. Archived on 26 January 2005.
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