Eugène Joseph Delporte

Short description: Belgian astronomer

Minor planets discovered: 66[1] see § List of discovered minor planets

Eugène Joseph Delporte (10 January 1882 – 19 October 1955) was a Belgian astronomer born in Genappe.[2][3]

He discovered a total of sixty-six asteroids. Notable discoveries include 1221 Amor (which lent its name to the Amor asteroids) and the Apollo asteroid 2101 Adonis.[2] He discovered or co-discovered some comets as well, including periodic comet 57P/du Toit-Neujmin-Delporte.[2] He worked in the Observatoire Royal de Belgique (Belgian Royal Observatory), situated in the town of Uccle (after which the asteroid 1276 Ucclia is named).[2] He started there in 1903 after receiving his doctorate that year from the Free University of Brussels.[4]

In 1930 he published, on behalf of the IAU, a work delineating the modern boundaries between all of the 88 official constellations in the sky, along lines of constant right ascension and declination for the epoch B1875.0.[5]

The Florian asteroid 1274 Delportia (discovered by himself) and the lunar impact crater Delporte were named after him.[3][6]

## List of discovered minor planets

1052 Belgica | 15 November 1925

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1068 Nofretete | 13 September 1926
1122 Neith | 17 September 1928
1124 Stroobantia | 6 October 1928
1128 Astrid | 10 March 1929
1145 Robelmonte | 3 February 1929
1168 Brandia | 25 August 1930
1170 Siva | 29 September 1930
1176 Lucidor | 15 November 1930
1199 Geldonia | 14 September 1931
1217 Maximiliana | 13 March 1932
1221 Amor | 12 March 1932
1222 Tina | 11 June 1932
1239 Queteleta | 4 February 1932
1261 Legia | 23 March 1933
1274 Delportia | 28 November 1932
1276 Ucclia | 24 January 1933
1280 Baillauda | 18 August 1933
1285 Julietta | 21 August 1933
1288 Santa | 26 August 1933
1290 Albertine | 21 August 1933
1291 Phryne | 15 September 1933
1293 Sonja | 26 September 1933
1294 Antwerpia | 24 October 1933
1329 Eliane | 23 March 1933
1341 Edmée | 27 January 1935

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1350 Rosselia | 3 October 1934
1361 Leuschneria | 30 August 1935
1363 Herberta | 30 August 1935
1366 Piccolo | 29 November 1932
1374 Isora | 21 October 1935
1375 Alfreda | 22 October 1935
1388 Aphrodite | 24 September 1935
1401 Lavonne | 22 October 1935
1433 Geramtina | 30 October 1937
1476 Cox | 10 September 1936
1486 Marilyn | 23 August 1938
1491 Balduinus | 23 February 1938
1493 Sigrid | 26 August 1938
1543 Bourgeois | 21 September 1941
1560 Strattonia | 3 December 1942
1664 Felix | 4 February 1929
1672 Gezelle | 29 January 1935
1698 Christophe | 10 February 1934
1707 Chantal | 8 September 1932
1711 Sandrine | 29 January 1935
1722 Goffin | 23 February 1938
1724 Vladimir | 28 February 1932
1754 Cunningham | 29 March 1935
1848 Delvaux | 18 August 1933
1878 Hughes | 18 August 1933

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1926 Demiddelaer | 2 May 1935
2101 Adonis | 12 February 1936
2213 Meeus | 24 September 1935
2276 Warck | 18 August 1933
2331 Parvulesco | 12 March 1936
2534 Houzeau | 2 November 1931
2545 Verbiest | 26 January 1933
2713 Luxembourg | 19 February 1938
2819 Ensor | 20 October 1933
2913 Horta | 12 October 1931
3534 Sax | 15 December 1936
3567 Alvema | 15 November 1930
3605 Davy | 28 November 1932
6354 Vangelis | 3 April 1934
7043 Godart | 2 September 1934

## References

1. ↑ "Minor Planet Discoverers (by number)". Minor Planet Center. 4 September 2016. http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/MPDiscsNum.html.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Obituary Notices : Eugene Joseph Delporte". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 116 (2): 143–144. 1956. doi:10.1093/mnras/116.2.143. Bibcode: 1956MNRAS.116Q.143..
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Schmadel, Lutz D. (2007). "(1274) Delportia". Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 105. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_1275. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3.
4. ↑ Hockey, Thomas (2009). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer Publishing. ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0. http://www.springerreference.com/docs/html/chapterdbid/58353.html.
5. ↑ Delporte, Eugène, Délimitation scientifique des constellations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1930).
6. ↑ "Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature – Planetary Names: Crater, craters: Delporte on Moon". USGS – IAU, Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN). 25 October 2010. https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/1477?__fsk=-1774962978.

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