Lutz D. Schmadel
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Lutz Dieter Schmadel (2 July 1942, in Berlin – 21 October 2016)<ref name="bio-index-German" /><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> was a German astronomer and a prolific discoverer of asteroids, who worked at the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut (ARI) of the University of Heidelberg.<ref name="springer-Schmadel" />
His special interest was the astrometry of minor planets. Among his numerous discoveries were the three main-belt asteroids 8661 Ratzinger, 10114 Greifswald and 11508 Stolte.<ref name="MPC-Ratzinger" /><ref name="MPC-Greifswald" /><ref name="MPC-Stolte" />
He was the author of the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, a reference book containing information about the discovery and naming of 12,804 asteroids (March 2006). One asteroid 2234 Schmadel, discovered in 1977, was named in his honor.<ref name="springer-Schmadel" /> The asteroid 8811 Waltherschmadel was named for his father, Walther Schmadel (1902–1944), who died at the Eastern Front near Stalingrad during WWII.<ref name="MPC-Waltherschmadel" />
Discoveries
Lutz Schmadel is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 245 minor planets made between 1960 and 1993.<ref name="MPC-Discoverers" />
List of discovered minor planets
Works
- Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Google books
- Dictionary of minor planet names (5th Edition). Springer Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg 2003, Template:ISBN
- Dictionary of minor planet names (Addendum to the 5th Edition: 2003-2005). Springer Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg 2006, Template:ISBN
- Dictionary of minor planet names (Addendum to the 5th Edition: 2006-2008). Springer Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg 2006, Template:ISBN
- Dictionary of minor planet names (6th Edition). Springer Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg 2012, Template:ISBN
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