Erich Karkoschka is a planet

Planet

A planet is a celestial body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and has cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals.The term planet is ancient, with ties to history, science,...

ary researcher at the Lunar and Planetary Lab of the University of Arizona

University of Arizona

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. He discovered a satellite of Uranus

Uranus

Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It has the third-largest planetary radius and fourth-largest planetary mass in the Solar System. It is named after the ancient Greek deity of the sky Uranus , the father of Cronus and grandfather of Zeus...

, S/1986 U 10 (later named Perdita

Perdita (moon)

Perdita is an inner satellite of Uranus. Perdita's discovery was complicated. The first photographs of Perdita were taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1986, but it was not recognized from the photographs for more than a decade. In 1999, the moon was noticed by Erich Karkoschka and reported...

) on photographs taken by the Voyager 2

Voyager 2

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 spacecraft. He has assembled a number of movies including: the Huygens

Huygens

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 landing on the Titan

Titan (moon)

Titan , or Saturn VI, is the largest moon of Saturn, the only natural satellite known to have a dense atmosphere, and the only object other than Earth for which clear evidence of stable bodies of surface liquid has been found....

 moon, the seasonal patterns on Uranus, and a rare triple eclipse

Eclipse

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 on Jupiter

Jupiter

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet within the Solar System. It is a gas giant with mass one-thousandth that of the Sun but is two and a half times the mass of all the other planets in our Solar System combined. Jupiter is classified as a gas giant along with Saturn,...

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His book, The Observer's Sky Atlas, has been translated into several languages as a resource for those interested in observing the sky.

An asteroid, 30786 Karkoschka

30786 Karkoschka

30786 Karkoschka is a Mars-crossing asteroid discovered on August 18, 1988 by C. S. and E. M. Shoemaker at Palomar.- External links :*...

(1988 QC), is named in his honour.