Arno Arthur Wachmann

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Asteroids discovered: 3[1]
1465 Autonoma 20 March 1938 Template:MPC
1501 Baade 20 October 1938 Template:MPC
1586 Thiele 13 February 1939 Template:MPC

Arno Arthur Wachmann (8 March 1902 – 24 July 1990) was a German astronomer and discoverer of comets and minor planets, who worked for many years at the Bergedorf Observatory in Hamburg.[2][3]

With Arnold Schwassmann he co-discovered the periodic comets 29P/Schwassmann–Wachmann, 31P/Schwassmann–Wachmann and 73P/Schwassmann–Wachmann. The Minor Planet Center credits him with the discovery of 3 asteroids during 1938–1939.[1] He also discovered supernova SN 1938B.

The inner main-belt asteroid 1704 Wachmann was named in his honor (M.P.C. 3933Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".).[3]

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  1. a b Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named MPC-Discoverers
  2. “Wachmann, Arno Arthur,” Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers Springer Link, Sept. 2007, p. 1188.
  3. a b Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named (1704) Wachmann