Holger Thiele


797 MontanaNovember 17, 1914
843 NicolaiaSeptember 30, 1916
1847 StobbeFebruary 1, 1916
3229 SolnhofenAugust 9, 1916

Holger Thiele was a Danish American astronomer and discoverer of minor planets and comets.
He was the son of Thorvald Nicolai Thiele, the noted Danish astronomer, actuary and mathematician, after whom the main-belt asteroid 1586 Thiele is named.
Holger Thiele is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 4 numbered asteroids during 1914–1916. He also discovered the comet C/1906 V1 and calculated the orbits of other comets. He worked at Hamburg-Bergedorf Observatory at Bergedorf, in Hamburg, Germany. In 1912, he immigrated to the United States.
In 1917, he started working as a fellow for the University of California at Lick Observatory, near San Jose, California. Holger Thiele died in Alameda County in 1946.

Selected works

Corrected elements and ephemeris of minor planet 1924 TD
  • ''Elements and ephemeris of Comet d 1927''