Felix Hormuth

Hormuth has worked with data obtained by the Infrared Space Observatory, was involved in the measurement campaign of the Very Large Telescope's GRAVITY-interferometer, and participated in the construction of optical instruments used at the NTT in La Silla, Chile. As of 2016, he is a project manager at MPIA, working for the Institute's hardware contribution to ESA's space-based Euclid mission, which will accurately measure the acceleration of the universe for the study of dark energy and dark matter.

The Minor Planet Center ranks him 127th for a total of 75 credited discoveries of numbered asteroid during 2003–2009. Hormuth has named his discovered main-belt asteroids 241475 Martinagedeck and 342843 Davidbowie after actors and songwriter Martina Gedeck and David Bowie, respectively. He has also named 18610 Arthurdent after the character in Douglas Adams's radio play and book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

The asteroid 10660 Felixhormuth was named in his honor by astronomers Lothar Kurtze and Lutz Schmadel. The outer main-belt asteroid, provisionally designated 4348 T-1, was discovered by Dutch and Dutch–American astronomers during the Palomar–Leiden trojan survey in 1971. Based on an absolute magnitude of 13.9, it measures about 4 to 10 kilometers in diameter.

{{see also|Category:Discoveries by Felix Hormuth}}

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• {{section link|List of minor planet discoverers|F. Hormuth}}

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|title = Felix Hormuth

|work = Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

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{{cite web

|title = Near-Earth asteroid discovered from Calar Alto Observatory

|work = Centro Astronómico Hispano-Alemán, Calar Alto Observatory

|url = http://www.caha.es/near-earth-asteroid-discovered-from-calar-alto-observatory.html

|date = February 2009

|access-date = 9 February 2016

|archive-date = 4 April 2016

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{{cite web

|title = Minor Planet Discoverers (by number)

|work = Minor Planet Center

|url = http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/MPDiscsNum.html

|date = 24 May 2019

|access-date = 27 May 2019}}

{{cite web

|title = 10660 Felixhormuth (4348 T-1)

|work = Minor Planet Center

|url = http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=10660

|access-date = 25 October 2017}}

{{cite web

|title = 241475 Martinagedeck (2009 BK14)

|work = Minor Planet Center

|url = http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=241475

|access-date = 9 February 2016}}

{{cite web

|title = 342843 Davidbowie (2008 YN3)

|work = Minor Planet Center

|url = http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=342843

|access-date = 9 February 2016}}

{{cite web

|title = 18610 Arthurdent (1998 CC2)

|work = Minor Planet Center

|url = http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=18610

|access-date = 9 February 2016}}

{{cite journal

|first1 = Felix |last1 = Hormuth

|first2 = Thomas G.|last2 = Müller

|date = January 2009

|title = Catalogue of ISO LWS observations of asteroids

|journal = Astronomy & Astrophysics

|volume = 497

|issue = 3

|pages = 1117–1138

|arxiv = 0901.4557

|doi = 10.1051/0004-6361/20066545|bibcode = 2009A&A...497..983H |s2cid = 18033251

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{{cite web

|type = 2015-01-25 last obs.

|title = JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 10660 Felixhormuth (4348 T-1)

|url = http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2010660

|publisher = Jet Propulsion Laboratory

|access-date = 9 February 2016}}

{{cite web

|title = Absolute Magnitude (H)

|publisher = NASA/JPL

|url = http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/glossary/h.html

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|archive-date = 2 March 2001

|access-date = 9 February 2016}}

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• [http://www.inertramblings.com/2003/08/28/douglas-adams-the-more-than-complete-hitchhikers-guide/ Douglas Adams – The more than complete The Hitchhiker's Guide], inertramblings.com, 2003
• [http://globalnews.ca/news/2446576/david-bowie-may-be-gone-but-he-will-live-on-in-space/ David Bowie may be gone, but he will live on in space] globalnews.ca, January 2016
• [http://www.rnz.de/nachrichten/heidelberg_artikel,-Heidelberger-Astronom-erfand-den-Kleinplaneten-Martinagedeck-_arid,118325.html Heidelberger Astronom (er)fand den Kleinplaneten "Martinagedeck"] Interview (in German) with Felix Hormuth in 2015
• [http://www.sternwarte-weinheim.de/ Sternwarte Weinheim] (Observatory code A23)

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