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 Belgica15 November 1925
1068 Nofretete13 September 1926
1122 Neith17 September 1928
1124 Stroobantia6 October 1928
1128 Astrid10 March 1929
1145 Robelmonte3 February 1929
1168 Brandia25 August 1930
1170 Siva29 September 1930
1176 Lucidor15 November 1930
1199 Geldonia14 September 1931
1217 Maximiliana13 March 1932
1221 Amor12 March 1932
1222 Tina11 June 1932
1239 Queteleta4 February 1932
1261 Legia23 March 1933
1274 Delportia28 November 1932
1276 Ucclia24 January 1933
1280 Baillauda18 August 1933
1285 Julietta21 August 1933
1288 Santa26 August 1933
1290 Albertine21 August 1933
1291 Phryne15 September 1933
1293 Sonja26 September 1933
1294 Antwerpia24 October 1933
1329 Eliane23 March 1933

1878 Hughes18 August 1933
1926 Demiddelaer2 May 1935
2101 Adonis12 February 1936
2213 Meeus24 September 1935
2276 Warck18 August 1933
2331 Parvulesco12 March 1936
2534 Houzeau2 November 1931
2545 Verbiest26 January 1933
2713 Luxembourg19 February 1938
2819 Ensor20 October 1933
2913 Horta12 October 1931
3534 Sax15 December 1936
3567 Alvema15 November 1930
3605 Davy28 November 1932
6354 Vangelis3 April 1934
7043 Godart2 September 1934