Johann Palisa
Austrian astronomist (1848–1925)
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Johann Palisa found 122 asteroids between 1874 and 1923 — every one by eye, no camera. In an era when photography was beginning to automate the sky, he stayed at the telescope and remains the most successful visual asteroid hunter in history.
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Born in Troppau, Austrian Silesia, in 1848, Palisa began his asteroid work in the 1870s and never stopped scanning. His finds included 153 Hilda, 216 Kleopatra, 243 Ida, 253 Mathilde, 324 Bamberga, and the near-Earth asteroid 719 Albert — all logged without a single photographic plate. The French Academy of Sciences gave him the Valz Prize in 1906. He kept hunting into his seventies; his last discovery, 1073 Gellivara, came in 1923. When he died in 1925, the sky had already named an asteroid and a lunar crater after him.
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