Thierry Pauwels

Minor planets discovered: 147 [1]
see § List of discovered minor planets

Thierry Pauwels (born 22 July 1957, Ghent) is a Belgian astronomer from the Royal Observatory of Belgium.[2][3] Between 1996 and 2008 he discovered and co-discovered 146 minor planets. This makes him one of the top 100 minor planet discoverers.[1]

The main-belt asteroid 12761 Pauwels, discovered by his colleague Eric Elst at La Silla Observatory in 1993, was named after him in 1993.[2] Naming citation was published on 18 March 2003 (M.P.C. 48156).[4]

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