Alexander Nikolaevich Deutsch
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| 1148 Rarahu 1148 Rarahu 1148 Rarahu is a main belt asteroid orbiting the Sun. Approximately 33 kilometers in diameter, it makes a revolution around the Sun once every 5 years. It completes one rotation once every 6 hours. It was discovered by Alexander Nikolaevich Deutsch on July 5, 1929. On July 28, it was independently... |
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Alexander Nikolaevich Deutsch was a Soviet astronomer
Astronomer
An astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as planets, stars and galaxies.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using...
who worked at Pulkovo Observatory
Pulkovo Observatory
The Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory астрономи́ческая обсервато́рия Росси́йской акаде́мии нау́к), the principal astronomical observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences, located 19 km south of Saint Petersburg on Pulkovo Heights...
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Deutsch was born in the night from December 31, 1900, to January 1, 1901, in Bessarabia
Bessarabia
Bessarabia is a historical term for the geographic region in Eastern Europe bounded by the Dniester River on the east and the Prut River on the west....
n town of Reni
Reni, Ukraine
Reni is a small town in the Odessa Oblast of western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Reniysky Raion , and is located in the Bessarabian historic district of Budjak. The settlement was founded around 1548, acquiring city status in 1821.The current estimated population is around...
in family of German (on the father's side), Greek and Romanian (on the mother's side) descent. When he was a small child, the family moved to Ryazan
Ryazan
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and then to Saratov
Saratov
-Modern Saratov:The Saratov region is highly industrialized, due in part to the rich in natural and industrial resources of the area. The region is also one of the more important and largest cultural and scientific centres in Russia...
. He was graduated from the Sankt Petersburg University (Russia). He was an adjoint director of the Pulkovo Observatory prior the World War II and the director of the Pulkovo Observatory during the blockade of Leningrade. Subsequently He was the head of the Astrometry section of the Pulkovo Observatory and the founder of the astrometric school of that observatory. He was active 1935–1985 as A. N. Deutsch (A. Deutsch published starting in 1926 and could be the same person). He discovered one asteroid (the Minor Planet Center
Minor Planet Center
The Minor Planet Center operates at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory , which is part of the Center for Astrophysics along with the Harvard College Observatory ....
lists him as A. Deutsch). His main scientific contributions refer to stars proper motions in selected Kapteyn surfaces, astrophotography of galaxies and stars, brown dwarfs, astronomical calculations of the coodinates of warships, eclipses and asteroids photography. A number of papers was signed as Deich. Deutsch(Deich) was а president of the IAU Astrometry commission. The asteroid Reni, discovered by L.S. Chernyh was named in honor of A.N. Deutsch (Deich).