Holger Thiele

Asteroids discovered: 4 [1]
797 Montana November 17, 1914 MPC
843 Nicolaia September 30, 1916 MPC
1847 Stobbe February 1, 1916 MPC
3229 Solnhofen August 9, 1916 MPC

Holger Thiele (September 25, 1878 – June 5, 1946) was a Danish American astronomer and discoverer of minor planets and comets.[2]

He was the son of Thorvald Nicolai Thiele (1838–1910), the noted Danish astronomer, actuary and mathematician, after whom the main-belt asteroid 1586 Thiele is named.[3]

Holger Thiele is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 4 numbered asteroids during 1914–1916.[1] He also discovered the comet C/1906 V1 and calculated the orbits of other comets. He worked at Hamburg-Bergedorf Observatory at Bergedorf, in Hamburg, Germany. In 1912, he immigrated to the United States.[4]

In 1917, he started working as a fellow for the University of California at Lick Observatory, near San Jose, California. Holger Thiele died in Alameda County in 1946.[5]

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  2. ^ "California Death Records". Archived from the original on 2012-01-01. Retrieved 2009-10-12.
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  5. ^ SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)