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Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld (; ; 21 October 1921 – 30 March 2015) was a Dutch
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Background

In a jointly credited trio with Tom Gehrels and her husband Cornelis Johannes van Houten, she was the discoverer of many thousands of
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s (credited by the
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with the discovery of 4,641 numbered minor planets). In the Palomar–Leiden survey, Gehrels took the images using the 48-inch Schmidt telescope at
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and shipped the photographic plates to the van Houtens at Leiden Observatory, who analyzed them for new asteroids. The trio are jointly credited with several thousand asteroid discoveries. Van Houten-Groeneveld died on 30 March 2015, at the age of 93, in Oegstgeest, Netherlands. The Themistian main-belt asteroid 1674 Groeneveld – discovered by Karl Reinmuth at Heidelberg and independently discovered by Finnish astronomer Yrjö Väisälä in 1938, was named in her honor ().


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I. van Houten-Groeneveld home page

Symposium 85e verjaardag
of 4 November 2006 (in Dutch)
2005 Annual report of the Leiden Observatory
see page 6. {{DEFAULTSORT:Houten-Groeneveld, Ingrid van 1921 births 2015 deaths 21st-century Dutch astronomers 20th-century Dutch women scientists Discoverers of asteroids * 20th-century Dutch astronomers Dutch women scientists Academic staff of Leiden University Scientists from Berlin Women astronomers