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Thomas Christian Südhof
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323 Brucia, the first asteroid discovered with photography22.12.1891
Wikipedia (12 Mar 2014, 08:42)
323 Brucia (/ˈbruːsiə/ BREW-see-ə or /ˈbruːʃə/ BREW-shə) was the first asteroid to be discovered by the use of astrophotography. It was also the first of over 200 asteroids discovered by Max Wolf, a pioneer in that method of finding astronomical objects. Discovered in 1891, it was named in honour of Catherine Wolfe Bruce, a noted patroness of the science of astronomy, who had donated $10,000 for the construction of the telescope used by Wolf.
It is also a Mars-crosser asteroid.
(source of the symbolic photo abaaonline.blogspot.com)
