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Kacper Wierzchoś
Kacper Wierzchoś (born 1988, Lublin, Poland) is a Polish astronomer. Biography He is the son of Jacek Wierzchoś, chemist, and former employee of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and Janina Wierzchoś, dentist. In the early 1990s, his family immigrated to Spain, where he graduated in physics from the Complutense University of Madrid. In 2019, he defended his doctorate, concerning comets, at the University of South Florida. He currently works at the Mount Lemmon Survey observatory as part of the Catalina Sky Survey project. In this context, he discovered several asteroids. In particular, along with Theodore Pruyne he co-discovered 2020 CD3, 2020 CD3 on , then a temporary satellite of Earth. In April of the same year, he discovered a long-period comet, which eponymy, consequently bears his name: C/2020 H3 (Wierzchoś). In , he discovered his second comet, Comet#Orbital characteristics, periodic comet: P/2021 R4 (Wierzchoś). Other comets discovered by him include: P/2021 U1 (Wier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astronomer
An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth. Astronomers observe astronomical objects, such as stars, planets, natural satellite, moons, comets and galaxy, galaxies – in either observational astronomy, observational (by analyzing the data) or theoretical astronomy. Examples of topics or fields astronomers study include planetary science, Sun, solar astronomy, the Star formation, origin or stellar evolution, evolution of stars, or the galaxy formation and evolution, formation of galaxies. A related but distinct subject is physical cosmology, which studies the Universe as a whole. Types Astronomers typically fall under either of two main types: observational astronomy, observational and theoretical astronomy, theoretical. Observational astronomers make direct observations of Astronomical object, celestial objects and analyze the data. In contrast, theoretical astronomers create and investigate Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |