Johann Palisa
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Johann Palisa was an Austrian astronomer. He was a prolific discoverer of asteroids, discovering 122 in all, from 136 Austria in 1874 to 1073 Gellivara in 1923. Some of his notable discoveries include
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A view of the City of Pula
253 Mathilde as seen by NEAR
Grave of the astronomer Johann Palisa at the Vienna Central Cemetery
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The Vienna Observatory is an astronomical observatory in Vienna, Austria. It is part of the University of Vienna.
Johann Palisa
…numbered Mars-crosser 14309 Defoy, respectively (see table below). He made his discoveries at the Austrian Naval Observatory at Pola (538) and at the Vienna Observatory. He also discovered the parabolic comet C/1879 Q1 in August 1879. One of his discoveries was 253 Mathilde, a 50-kilometer sized C-type asteroid in the…
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The observatory's 68 cm Grubb refractor