Named Minor Planets discovered at the Taunus Observatory of the Physikalischer Verein (B01).
Sorted by date of discovery.


(192220) Oicles = 2007 RZ132
     Discovered 2007 Sept. 14 by E. Schwab and R. Kling at Taunus.
     Oicles was an Argive king, father of Amphiaraus and son of Mantius.
He accompanied Heracles on the mission to fight Laomedon of Troy and died in
the battle.


(204852) Frankfurt = 2007 RH133
     Discovered 2007 Sept. 15 by E. Schwab and R. Kling at Taunus.
     Frankfurt am Main, birthplace of Goethe, Karl Schwarzschild and
Otto Hahn, is the largest city in the German State of Hessen and the location
of the European Central Bank.


(204873) FAIR = 2007 SW1
     Discovered 2007 Sept. 17 by E. Schwab and R. Kling at Taunus.
     The Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) is an international
science center for studying the building blocks of matter and the evolution
of the universe.  FAIR is a system of particle accelerators located at the
Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt.


(189398) Soemmerring = 2008 JG20
     Discovered 2008 May 7 by S. Karge and R. Kling at Taunus.
     Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring (1755-1830) was a German anthropologist,
anatomist, paleontologist and inventor.  He discovered the macula in the
retina of the human eye and invented the electrochemical telegraph.  His son
Detmar Wilhelm was cofounder of the Physikalischer Verein in 1824 at
Frankfurt am Main.




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Minor Planets discovered at other observatories and
named in honor of people of the Physikalischer Verein,


(728) Leonisis = 1912 NU
     Discovered 1912 Febr. 16 by J. Palisa at Vienna.
     Named in honor of Geheimrat Leo Gans (1843-1935), president of the Physical
Society at Frankfurt a.M., Germany on the occasion of his 70th birthday. The
emblem of the Society is an Isis, thus the combined name for this planet. 
Named by M. Brendel.


(761) Brendelia = 1913 SO
     Discovered 1913 Sept. 8 by F. Kaiser at Heidelberg.
     Named by the discoverer in honor of the late theoreticist of the minor 
planets, Otto Rudolph Martin Brendel (1862-1939), who at that time was director
of the "Planeteninstitut" at the University of Frankfurt am Main. Brendel 
himself chose for the planet to be named the object with the smallest 
inclination from the planets discovered by Kaiser and not previously named.


(1487) Boda = 1938 WC
     Discovered 1938 Nov. 17 by K. Reinmuth at Heidelberg.
     Named in honor of the German astronomer Karl Boda (1889-1942) who at the 
Frankfurt Planeten-Institut worked on minor planet dynamics.


(185638) Erwinschwab = 2008 EU7
     Discovered 2008 Mar. 1 at the Observatorio de La Sagra.
     Erwin Schwab (b. 1964) is a German amateur astronomer who started
observing minor planets in 1981.  Together with Rainer Kling, he initiated
the astrometric program at the Taunus Observatory.  Schwab has discovered
numerous minor planets at the Starkenburg, Tzec Maun and Taunus observatories.


(185639) Rainerkling = 2008 EH8
     Discovered 2008 Mar. 2 at the Observatorio de La Sagra.
     Rainer Kling (b. 1952) is a German amateur astronomer who initiated,
together with Erwin Schwab, the astrometric program at the Taunus Observatory.
Kling is an ardent observer who has discovered numerous minor planets,
including the Apollo-type object 2009 DM45.