Eugène Joseph Delporte
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Eugène Joseph Delporte was a Belgian astronomer born in Genappe.
He discovered a total of sixty-six asteroids. Notable discoveries include 1221 Amor and the Apollo asteroid 2101 Adonis. He discovered or co-discovered some comets as well, including periodic comet 57P/du Toit-Neujmin-Delporte. He worked in the Observatoire Royal de Belgique, situated in the town of Uccle. He started there in 1903 after receiving his doctorate that year from the Free University of Brussels.
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.
The Florian asteroid 1274 Delportia and the lunar impact crater Delporte were named after him.
List of discovered minor planets
| 1052 Belgica | 15 November 1925 |
| 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 |
| 1878 Hughes | 18 August 1933 |
| 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 |