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    1691 Oort, provisional designation 1956 RB, is a rare-type carbonaceous Themistian asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately...
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    occupied by the planets." The Oort cloud, the Oort constants, and the asteroid 1691 Oort were all named after him. Oort was born in Franeker, a small...
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  • Way Oort (crater), a crater on Pluto Oort limit, theoretical edge of the Oort cloud 1691 Oort (1956 RB), a main-belt asteroid Van Oort Adam van Oort (1561/62–1641)...
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  • October 1937 1674 Groeneveld 7 February 1938 1682 Karel 2 August 1949 1691 Oort 9 September 1956 1704 Wachmann 7 March 1924 1706 Dieckvoss 5 October 1931...
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  • mathematician and amateur astronomer MPC · 1690 1691 Oort 1956 RB Jan Oort (1900–1992), Dutch astronomer MPC · 1691 1692 Subbotina 1936 QD Mikhail Subbotin (1893–1966)...
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  • 1686 De Sitter (Willem de Sitter) 1677 Tycho Brahe (Tycho Brahe) 1691 Oort (Jan Oort) 1693 Hertzsprung (Ejnar Hertzsprung) 1714 Sy (Frédéric Sy) 1741...
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  • VB Mayrhofer November 8, 1948 Nice M. Laugier  · 34 km MPC · JPL 1691 Oort 1956 RB Oort September 9, 1956 Heidelberg K. Reinmuth THM 34 km MPC · JPL 1692...
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    Observatory. Together with Ingrid, Reinmuth discovered the minor planet 1691 Oort in 1956. Reinmuth also named his two discoveries, 1673 van Houten and...
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  • 11151 Oodaigahara 8533 Oohira 10627 Ookuninushi 11152 Oomine 2649 Oongaq 1691 Oort 1738 Oosterhoff 23744 Ootsubo 5214 Oozora 90732 Opdebeeck 10692 Opeil...
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  • v t e Minor planets navigator 1691 Oort 1692 Subbotina 1693 Hertzsprung...
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  • Mayrhofer. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 134. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_1691. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. "LCDB Data for (1690) Mayrhofer". Asteroid Lightcurve...
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    Observatory from 1945–1970. He had previously been honoured with the asteroid 1691 Oort. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center...
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  • 1686 De Sitter 1687 Glarona 1688 Wilkens 1689 Floris-Jan 1690 Mayrhofer 1691 Oort 1692 Subbotina 1693 Hertzsprung 1694 Kaiser 1695 Walbeck 1696 Nurmela...
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    ultimately led to the finding of galactic rotation by Bertil Lindblad and Jan Oort.[citation needed] In 1917, Heber Doust Curtis had observed the nova S Andromedae...
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  • 1851 – The Hague 1908) Nuijen, Wijnand (The Hague 1813 – The Hague 1839) Oort, Hendrik van (Utrecht 1775 – Utrecht 1847) Os, Georgius Jacobus Johannes...
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  • and politician Hendrick ten Oever (1639–1716), Dutch painter Hendrik van Oort (1775–1847), Dutch landscape painter Hendrik Gerritsz Pot (c.1580–1657),...
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  • programmer, author of text-editor Vim Wubbo Ockels (1946–2014), astronaut Jan Oort (1900–1992), astronomer Anton Pannekoek (1873–1960), astronomer Guido van...
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    beyond the orbit of Neptune; while long-period comets originate in the Oort Cloud, in the outer reaches of the Solar System. The orbital period distinction...
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    the construction of Trinity Church, New York. On 16 May 1691, Kidd married Sarah Bradley Cox Oort, who was still in her early twenties. She had already...
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    1 ly (0.3 parsecs) apart for about 4,600 years. If Epsilon Eridani has an Oort cloud, Luyten 726-8 could gravitationally perturb some of its comets with...
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    Katgert-Merkelijn, J. & Damen, J. (2000). "A short biography of Jan Hendrik Oort: 7. Crab Nebula". Leiden University Library. Archived from the original on...
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  • (Germany, 1758–1840) Gerard O'Neill (United States, 1927–1992) Jan Hendrik Oort (Netherlands, 1900–1992) Pieter Oosterhoff (Netherlands, 1904–1978) Ernst...
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  • 1992 – Arpad Elo, American physicist and chess player (b. 1903) 1992 – Jan Oort, Dutch astronomer and academic (b. 1900) 1996 – Eddie Harris, American saxophonist...
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    O'Connell, Ireland's predominant political leader (d. 1847) Hendrik van Oort, Northern Netherlandish painter (d. 1847) August 7 Maria Brizzi Giorgi, Italian...
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    Nicolas Franchimont 1890–1891 Christiaan Karel Hoffmann 1891–1892 Henricus Oort 1892–1893 Cornelis Petrus Tiele 1893–1894 Sybrandus Johannes Fockema Andreae...
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    O'Connell, Ireland's predominant political leader (d. 1847) Hendrik van Oort, Northern Netherlandish painter (d. 1847) August 7 Maria Brizzi Giorgi, Italian...
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  • London, Fritz Wolfgang 1227 Joliot-Curie, Frederic 1228 Pauli, Wolfgang 1229 Oort, Jan Hendrik 1230 Gabor, Dennis Physics inventor, most notable for inventing...
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  • Member Lars Onsager 1975-04-24 27 November 1903 – 5 October 1976 Jan Hendrik Oort 1959-04-23 28 April 1900 – 5 November 1992 J. Robert Oppenheimer 1962-05-03...
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