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 discovered: 6

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| 3318 Blixen

3318 Blixen

3318 Blixen is a main belt asteroid discovered by Poul Jensen and Karl Augustesen in 1985. It measures 23.5 km in diameter, and is named after Karen Blixen, the Danish novelist....

|| April 23, 1985
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| 3596 Meriones

3596 Meriones

3596 Meriones is an asteroid discovered on November 14, 1985 by Poul Jensen and Karl Augustesen. It is named after Meriones, the fictional hero from the Iliad. It orbits in the Lagrangian point of the Sun-Jupiter system and is therefore considered to be part of the "Greek camp".-External links and...

|| November 14, 1985
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| 3934 Tove

3934 Tove

3934 Tove is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 23, 1987 by P. Jensen at Brorfelde.- External links :*...

|| February 23, 1987
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| 5320 Lisbeth

5320 Lisbeth

5320 Lisbeth is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 14, 1985 by P. Jensen at Brorfelde.- External links :*...

|| November 14, 1985
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| 5321 Jagras

5321 Jagras

5321 Jagras is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 14, 1985 by P. Jensen at Brorfelde.- External links :*...

|| November 14, 1985
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1. with Poul Jensen
   Poul Jensen (astronomer)
   Poul Jensen is a Danish astronomer.While working at Brorfelde Observatory he discovered numerous asteroids. Between 1967–69 he assisted in positional observations with the observatory's 7" transit circle. He is also a co-discoverer of theComet Jensen-Shoemaker . As of 2004 he isstill...
   
   
2. with Hans Jørn Fogh Olsen

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Karl A. Augustesen (born 1945) is a Danish

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 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...

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Working at Brorfelde Observatory

Brorfelde Observatory

Brorfelde Observatory is an astronomical observatory home to the Brorfelde Schmidt Telescope. It was run as a branch of the Copenhagen University Observatory until 1996. It still has telescopes that are used by University of Copenhagen students, but the staff that manned them moved to the...

, he has discovered a number of 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...

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The 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...

 5171 Augustesen

5171 Augustesen

5171 Augustesen is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 8, 1988 by P. Jensen at Brorfelde.- External links :*...

was named in his honor.