788 Hohensteina
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788 Hohensteina is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on April 4, 1914, by Franz Kaiser
at Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory
. Named for castle Hohenstein
located in the Taunus
mountains.
Asteroid belt
The asteroid belt is the region of the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. It is occupied by numerous irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets...
asteroid
Asteroid
Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...
discovered on April 4, 1914, by Franz Kaiser
Franz Kaiser
Franz Kaiser was a German astronomer.He worked at the Heidelberg-Königstuhl Observatory from 1911 to 1914 while working on his Ph.D. there, which he obtained in 1915. During this time Heidelberg was a center of asteroid discovery, and Kaiser discovered a number of asteroids during his time...
at Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory
Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl
The Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory is an historic astronomical observatory located near the summit of the Königstuhl hill in the city of Heidelberg in Germany...
. Named for castle Hohenstein
Hohenstein, Hesse
Hohenstein is a community in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany.-Location:Hohenstein lies in the western Taunus, on both sides of the river Aar between Limburg and Wiesbaden.-Neighbouring communities:...
located in the Taunus
Taunus
The Taunus is a low mountain range in Hesse, Germany that composes part of the Rhenish Slate Mountains. It is bounded by the river valleys of Rhine, Main and Lahn. On the opposite side of the Rhine, the mountains are continued by the Hunsrück...
mountains.