August Kopff
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| 579 Sidonia
579 Sidonia
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|| November 3, 1905
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| 582 Olympia
582 Olympia
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|| January 23, 1906
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| 584 Semiramis
584 Semiramis
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|| January 15, 1906
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| 585 Bilkis
585 Bilkis
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|| February 16, 1906
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| 589 Croatia
589 Croatia
589 Croatia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun, discovered by Dr. August Kopff from Königstuhl-Heidelberg Observatory, with the use of the photographic method. In the moment of the discovery, the asteroid was 12,5mv and was in the constellation of Virgo...
|| March 3, 1906
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| 591 Irmgard
591 Irmgard
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|| March 14, 1906
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| 593 Titania
593 Titania
593 Titania is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.Not to be confused with Titania the largest moon of Uranus.-External links:*...
|| March 20, 1906
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| 595 Polyxena
595 Polyxena
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|| March 27, 1906
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| 596 Scheila
596 Scheila
596 Scheila is a main-belt asteroid and main-belt cometorbiting the Sun. It was discovered on 21 February 1906 by August Kopff from Heidelberg...
|| February 21, 1906
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| 606 Brangäne
606 Brangäne
606 Brangäne is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.The asteroid is named after a character from the opera Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner.-External links:*...
|| September 18, 1906
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| 607 Jenny
607 Jenny
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|| September 18, 1906
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| 608 Adolfine
608 Adolfine
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|| September 18, 1906
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| 612 Veronika
612 Veronika
612 Veronika is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was discovered on October 8, 1906 by August Kopff from Heidelberg. The reason for the name is unknown; asteroid etymologist Lutz D. Schmadel suspects that it may have been inspired by the letter code "VN" in its provisional designation, 1906...
|| October 8, 1906
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| 613 Ginevra
613 Ginevra
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|| October 11, 1906
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| 614 Pia
614 Pia
614 Pia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. The planet is native to the asteroid belt and was first seen and discovered on October 11, 1906 by August Kopff-External links:*...
|| October 11, 1906
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| 615 Roswitha
615 Roswitha
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|| October 11, 1906
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| 616 Elly
616 Elly
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|| October 17, 1906
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| 617 Patroclus
617 Patroclus
617 Patroclus is a binary minor planet made up of two similarly-sized objects orbiting their common centre of gravity. It is a Trojan asteroid, sharing an orbit with Jupiter. It was discovered in 1906 by August Kopff, and was the second trojan to be discovered...
|| October 17, 1906
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| 619 Triberga
619 Triberga
619 Triberga is a main belt asteroid discovered on October 22, 1906 by August Kopff at Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory. Since it has an orbit that repeats itself almost exactly every four years in respect to the position of the Sun and Earth it has been suggested as a way to calculate the...
|| October 22, 1906
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| 621 Werdandi
621 Werdandi
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|| November 11, 1906
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| 624 Hektor
624 Hektor
624 Hektor is the largest Jupiter Trojan. It was discovered in 1907 by August Kopff.Hektor is a D-type asteroid, dark and reddish in colour. It lies in Jupiter's leading Lagrangian point, , called the 'Greek' node after one of the two sides in the legendary Trojan War...
|| February 10, 1907
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| 625 Xenia
625 Xenia
625 Xenia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was discovered in 1907 by August Kopff.-External links:* -References:...
|| February 11, 1907
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| 626 Notburga
626 Notburga
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|| February 11, 1907
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| 627 Charis
627 Charis
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|| March 4, 1907
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| 628 Christine
628 Christine
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|| March 7, 1907
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| 629 Bernardina
629 Bernardina
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|| March 7, 1907
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| 630 Euphemia
630 Euphemia
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|| March 7, 1907
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| 631 Philippina
631 Philippina
631 Philippina is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. In 2007 lightcurve data showed that it rotates every 5.899 ± 0.001 hours.-External links:*...
|| March 21, 1907
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| 632 Pyrrha
632 Pyrrha
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|| April 5, 1907
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| 633 Zelima
633 Zelima
633 Zelima is a minor planet orbiting the Sun in the asteroid belt with a magnitude of 10.7.-External links:*...
|| May 12, 1907
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| 634 Ute
634 Ute
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|| May 12, 1907
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| 640 Brambilla
640 Brambilla
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|| August 29, 1907
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| 643 Scheherezade
643 Scheherezade
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|| September 8, 1907
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| 644 Cosima
644 Cosima
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|| September 7, 1907
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| 646 Kastalia
646 Kastalia
646 Kastalia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun, not to be confused with the near-Earth asteroid 4769 Castalia.-External links:*...
|| September 11, 1907
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| 647 Adelgunde
647 Adelgunde
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|| September 11, 1907
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| 648 Pippa
648 Pippa
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|| September 11, 1907
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| 649 Josefa
649 Josefa
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|| September 11, 1907
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| 650 Amalasuntha
650 Amalasuntha
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|| October 4, 1907
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| 651 Antikleia
651 Antikleia
651 Antikleia is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 4, 1907 by August Kopff at the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory. It is named for Anticlea the mother of Odysseus.- References :...
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| 654 Zelinda
654 Zelinda
654 Zelinda is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was discovered on January 4th, 2008 by August Kopff.On favorable oppositions, it can be as bright as magnitude 10.0, as on January 30th, 2016.-External links:*...
|| January 4, 1908
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| 656 Beagle
656 Beagle
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|| January 22, 1908
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| 657 Gunlöd
657 Gunlöd
657 Gunlöd is a C-type asteroid orbiting in the Main belt near the Eunomia family. However, it is not a family member but an un-related interloper in the region because its composition is inconsistent with membership. Its diameter is about 43 km, its albedo around 0.042, and its rotation...
|| January 23, 1908
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| 658 Asteria
658 Asteria
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|| January 23, 1908
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| 663 Gerlinde
663 Gerlinde
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|| June 24, 1908
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| 664 Judith
664 Judith
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|| June 24, 1908
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| 666 Desdemona
666 Desdemona
666 Desdemona is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.It may often be confused with Desdemona, a moon of the planet Uranus.-External links:*...
|| July 23, 1908
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| 667 Denise
667 Denise
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|| July 23, 1908
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| 668 Dora
668 Dora
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|| July 27, 1908
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| 669 Kypria
669 Kypria
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|| August 20, 1908
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| 670 Ottegebe
670 Ottegebe
670 Ottegebe is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. In 2007 lightcurve data showed that Ottegebe rotates every 10.041 ± 0.002 hours.-External links:*...
|| August 20, 1908
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| 672 Astarte
672 Astarte
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|| September 21, 1908
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| 677 Aaltje
677 Aaltje
677 Aaltje is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.It is named after the Dutch singer Aaltje Noordewier-Reddingius. -External links:*...
|| January 18, 1909
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| 679 Pax
679 Pax
679 Pax is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It is named after Pax, a Roman goddess.-External links:*...
|| January 28, 1909
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| 680 Genoveva
680 Genoveva
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|| April 22, 1909
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| 681 Gorgo
681 Gorgo
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|| May 13, 1909
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| 682 Hagar
682 Hagar
682 Hagar is a presumed Eunomian asteroid. Its spectral characteristics are unknown.- External links :*...
|| June 17, 1909
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| 684 Hildburg
684 Hildburg
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|| August 8, 1909
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| 686 Gersuind
686 Gersuind
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|| August 15, 1909
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| 692 Hippodamia || November 5, 1901
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| 693 Zerbinetta
693 Zerbinetta
693 Zerbinetta is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.It is named after a character in the opera Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss.-External links:*...
|| September 21, 1909
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| 754 Malabar
754 Malabar
754 Malabar is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was discovered in 1906 by August Kopff.-External links:*...
|| August 22, 1906
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| 1780 Kippes
1780 Kippes
1780 Kippes is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 12, 1906 by A. Kopff at Heidelberg. It was named after German amateur astronomer Otto Kippes, acknowledged for his work in asteroid orbit calculations.- External links :*...
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| 1781 Van Biesbroeck
1781 Van Biesbroeck
1781 Van Biesbroeck is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 17, 1906 by A. Kopff at Heidelberg.- External links :*...
|| October 17, 1906
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| 3105 Stumpff
3105 Stumpff
3105 Stumpff is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 8, 1907 by A. Kopff at Heidelberg.- External links :*...
|| August 8, 1907
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| 3133 Sendai
3133 Sendai
3133 Sendai is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 4, 1907 by A. Kopff at Heidelberg.- External links :*...
|| October 4, 1907
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| 3687 Dzus
3687 Dzus
3687 Dzus is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 7, 1908 by Kopff, A. at Heidelberg.- External links :*...
|| October 7, 1908
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with Paul Götz
Paul Götz
Paul Götz was an astronomer.He did his Ph.D. dissertation in 1907 at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl at the University of Heidelberg....
with Max Wolf
Max Wolf
Maximilian Franz Joseph Cornelius Wolf was a German astronomer and a pioneer in the field of astrophotography...
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August Kopff (February 5, 1882–April 25, 1960) was a German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
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 discovered several comet
Comet
A comet is an icy small Solar System body that, when close enough to the Sun, displays a visible coma and sometimes also a tail. These phenomena are both due to the effects of solar radiation and the solar wind upon the nucleus of the comet...
s and 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...
s. He worked in Heidelberg, then joined the Humboldt University of Berlin
Humboldt University of Berlin
The Humboldt University of Berlin is Berlin's oldest university, founded in 1810 as the University of Berlin by the liberal Prussian educational reformer and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt, whose university model has strongly influenced other European and Western universities...
where he became the Director of the Institute for Astronomical Calculation.
He discovered some comets, including periodic comet 22P/Kopff
22P/Kopff
Comet Kopff or 22P/Kopff is a periodic comet in our solar system. Discovered on August 23, 1906, it was named after August Kopff who discovered the comet. The comet was missed on its November 1912 return, but was recovered on its June 1919 return. The comet has not been missed since its 1919 return...
and the non-periodic C/1906 E1. He discovered a number of asteroids, including notably the Trojan asteroid
Trojan asteroid
The Jupiter Trojans, commonly called Trojans or Trojan asteroids, are a large group of objects that share the orbit of the planet Jupiter around the Sun. Relative to Jupiter, each Trojan librates around one of the planet's two Lagrangian points of stability, and , that respectively lie 60° ahead...
s 617 Patroclus
617 Patroclus
617 Patroclus is a binary minor planet made up of two similarly-sized objects orbiting their common centre of gravity. It is a Trojan asteroid, sharing an orbit with Jupiter. It was discovered in 1906 by August Kopff, and was the second trojan to be discovered...
and 624 Hektor
624 Hektor
624 Hektor is the largest Jupiter Trojan. It was discovered in 1907 by August Kopff.Hektor is a D-type asteroid, dark and reddish in colour. It lies in Jupiter's leading Lagrangian point, , called the 'Greek' node after one of the two sides in the legendary Trojan War...
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The lunar
Moon
The Moon is Earth's only known natural satellite,There are a number of near-Earth asteroids including 3753 Cruithne that are co-orbital with Earth: their orbits bring them close to Earth for periods of time but then alter in the long term . These are quasi-satellites and not true moons. For more...
crater
Impact crater
In the broadest sense, the term impact crater can be applied to any depression, natural or manmade, resulting from the high velocity impact of a projectile with a larger body...
Kopff
Kopff (crater)
Kopff is a lunar crater that lies along the eastern edge of the inner Mare Orientale impact basin, on the western limb of the Moon. In this position the crater is seen from on edge from the Earth, and its visibility is affected by libration...
is named after him, along with the asteroid 1631 Kopff
1631 Kopff
1631 Kopff is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 11, 1936 by Y. Vaisala at Turku. The asteroid was named in memory of August Kopff.- External links :*...
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