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Michael Jäger (astronomer)
Michael Jäger (born 1958 in Vienna) is an Austrian editor, amateur astronomer and discoverer of comets. Since 1980, Jäger works as an editor for the newspaper ''Kurier''. From 2005, he led the Lower Austrian editorial department, and since 2010, he leads the chronicle department. Since 1982, Jäger is engaged in the observation of comets. Until now (as of January 2015), he was able to record over 500 of these celestial bodies. On 28 August 1994, Jäger discovered a comet fragment that had separated from the comet 141P/Machholz. On 23 October 1998, he discovered the comet 290P/Jäger. In 1999, Jäger was awarded the Edgar Wilson Award for his discovery of a comet. In the same year, he became the first winner of the VdS Medal (''Vds Medaille''), awarded by the German ''Vereinigung der Sternfreunde''. In May 2004, the asteroid 78391 Michaeljäger was named in his honor. On 24 June 2014 Jäger was presented the Decoration of Honour in Silver of the province of Lower Austria for his j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vienna
Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. Its larger metropolitan area has a population of nearly 2.9 million, representing nearly one-third of the country's population. Vienna is the Culture of Austria, cultural, Economy of Austria, economic, and Politics of Austria, political center of the country, the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, fifth-largest city by population in the European Union, and the most-populous of the List of cities and towns on the river Danube, cities on the river Danube. The city lies on the eastern edge of the Vienna Woods (''Wienerwald''), the northeasternmost foothills of the Alps, that separate Vienna from the more western parts of Austria, at the transition to the Pannonian Basin. It sits on the Danube, and is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
