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Comet Klinkerfues (other)
Comet Klinkerfues may refer to the following comets, all discovered by Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Klinkerfues: * C/1853 L1 (a.k.a. 1853 III) * C/1854 L1 (a.k.a. 1854 III) * C/1854 R1 (a.k.a. 1854 IV) * C/1857 M1 (a.k.a. 1857 III) * C/1857 Q1 (a.k.a. 1857 V) * C/1863 G1 (a.k.a. 1863 II) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Klinkerfues
Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Klinkerfues (29 March 1827 in Hofgeismar – 28 January 1884 in Göttingen) was a German astronomer and meteorologist. He discovered six comets and published weather reports of varying accuracy based on his meteorological measurements. Early life Klinkerfues was born in Hofgeismar, the son of army doctor Johann Reinhard Klinkerfues and his wife Sabine (née Dedolph). After the early death of his parents, he was brought up by relatives, and after attending high school qualified as a surveyor in Kassel. In this capacity he subsequently worked on the new Frankfurt - Kassel railway. From 1847 to 1851 Klinkerfues studied mathematics and astronomy at the University of Marburg. He then became an assistant to Carl Friedrich Gauss at Göttingen Observatory, where he completed his Ph.D. with a thesis on orbit calculations of double stars. After Gauss' death in 1855, the mathematician W. E. Weber replaced him as director, but Klinkerfues was to be temporari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |