Vladimir Aleksandrovich Albitzky
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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: 10
1002 Olbersia
1002 Olbersia
1002 Olbersia is a main-belt asteroid. It was discovered by Vladimir Aleksandrovich Albitzky on August 15, 1923. It was named after Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers.-References:...

 
August 15, 1923
1007 Pawlowia
1007 Pawlowia
1007 Pawlowia is an asteroid. It was discovered by Vladimir Aleksandrovich Albitzky on October 5, 1923. Its provisional designation was 1923 OX. It is named after Ivan Pavlov....

 
October 5, 1923
1022 Olympiada
1022 Olympiada
1022 Olympiada is an asteroid. It was discovered by Vladimir Aleksandrovich Albitzky on June 23, 1924. Its provisional designation was 1924 RT. It was named after the Olympic Games....

 
June 23, 1924
1028 Lydina
1028 Lydina
1028 Lydina is an asteroid. It was discovered by Vladimir Aleksandrovich Albitzky on November 6, 1923. Its provisional designation was 1923 PG....

 
November 6, 1923
1030 Vitja
1030 Vitja
1030 Vitja is an asteroid. It was discovered by Vladimir Aleksandrovich Albitzky on May 25, 1924. Its provisional designation was 1924 RQ. It was named after Viktor Zaslavsky, Russian World War II hero....

 
May 25, 1924
1034 Mozartia
1034 Mozartia
1034 Mozartia is an asteroid. It was discovered by Vladimir Aleksandrovich Albitzky on September 7, 1924. Its provisional designation was 1924 SS. It was named after Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, an influential Austrian composer....

 
September 7, 1924
1059 Mussorgskia
1059 Mussorgskia
1059 Mussorgskia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. Initially, it received the designation 1925 OA. It is now named after Modest Mussorgsky, a Russian composer.-External links:*...

 
July 19, 1925
1071 Brita
1071 Brita
1071 Brita is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. Initially it received the designation 1924 RE.-External links:*...

 
March 3, 1924
1283 Komsomolia
1283 Komsomolia
1283 Komsomolia is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 25, 1925 by V. Albitzkij at Simeis.It is named after Komsomol, the youth wing of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union .- External links :*...

 
September 25, 1925
1330 Spiridonia
1330 Spiridonia
1330 Spiridonia is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 17, 1925 by V. Albitzkij at Simeis.- External links :...

 
February 17, 1925

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Albitzky (June 16, 1891 – June 15, 1952) was a Soviet
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

/Russian 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...

. In modern English transliteration, his surname would be given as Al'bitskii or Al'bitsky. In the literature, he is sometimes referred to as W. A. Albizkij, howev
er his surname usually appears in the literature as "Albitzky". His asteroid discoveries are credited as "V. Albitskij".

He came to the Simeiz Observatory
Simeiz Observatory
Simeiz Observatory was an astronomy research observatory until the mid 1950s. It is located on Mount Koshka, Crimea, Ukraine by the town of Simeiz....

 (Симеиз) in Crimea in 1922, working with G. A. Shajn
Grigory Abramovich Shajn
Grigory Abramovich Shajn was a Soviet/Russian astronomer. In modern English transliteration, his surname would be given as Shayn, but his astronomical discoveries are credited under the name G. Shajn...

 and G. N. Neujmin.

He 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...

s.

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Papers by V.A. Albitzky

The total number of papers by V.A. Albitzky is about 88 according to his File from the Archive of the Pulkovo Oservatory. Only 5 papers can be found at the ADS NASA, while the rest are given in a copy from the archiv by Alex Gaina, including a great part of the observations of asteroids.
A Russian version of the work concerning radial velocities of 343 stars can be found at:

External links

  • http://ziv.telescopes.ru/rubric/observatories/?pub=1
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