Hendrik van Gent
{{Short description|Dutch astronomer (1899–1947)}}
{{family name hatnote|van Gent|Gent|lang=Dutch}}
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|+ Asteroids discovered: 39 | |
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Hendrik van Gent (14 September 1899, Pernis – March 29, 1947, Amsterdam)Album studiosorum Academiæ lugduno-batavæ MDCCCLXXV-MCMXXV, A. W. Sijthoff, 1925, p. 376 was a Dutch astronomer.
He moved to South Africa in 1928 in order to observe the southern sky at the Leiden Southern Station and the Union Observatory in Johannesburg. He obtained his PhD from Leiden University in 1931. He studied variable stars and also discovered three comets, namely C/1941 K1, C/1944 K2 and C/1943 W1. The Minor Planet Center credits him with the discovery of 39 numbered minor planets during 1929–1935.
He died of a heart attack at the age of 47 while on leave in the Netherlands. The crater Van Gent on the far side of the Moon, and the asteroid 1666 van Gent are named after him.
List of discovered minor planets
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| 1132 Hollandia | September 13, 1929 |
| 1133 Lugduna | September 13, 1929 |
| 1165 Imprinetta | April 24, 1930 |
| 1225 Ariane | April 23, 1930 |
| 1226 Golia | April 22, 1930 |
| 1267 Geertruida | April 23, 1930 |
| 1336 Zeelandia | September 9, 1934 |
| 1337 Gerarda | September 9, 1934 |
| 1342 Brabantia | February 13, 1935 |
| 1353 Maartje | February 13, 1935 |
| 1383 Limburgia | September 9, 1934 |
| 1384 Kniertje | September 9, 1934 |
| 1385 Gelria | May 24, 1935 |
| 1389 Onnie | September 28, 1935 |
| 1666 van Gent | July 22, 1930 |
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| 1667 Pels | September 16, 1930 |
| 1670 Minnaert | September 9, 1934 |
| 1686 De Sitter | September 28, 1935 |
| 1689 Floris-Jan | September 16, 1930 |
| 1693 Hertzsprung | May 5, 1935 |
| 1694 Kaiser | September 29, 1934 |
| 1738 Oosterhoff | September 16, 1930 |
| 1752 van Herk | July 22, 1930 |
| 1753 Mieke | May 10, 1934 |
| 1879 Broederstroom | October 16, 1935 |
| 1914 Hartbeespoortdam | September 28, 1930 |
| 1925 Franklin-Adams | September 9, 1934 |
| 1945 Wesselink | July 22, 1930 |
| 1946 Walraven | August 8, 1931 |
| 1986 Plaut | September 28, 1935 |
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| 2019 van Albada | September 28, 1935 |
| 2203 van Rhijn | September 28, 1935 |
| 2378 Pannekoek | February 13, 1935 |
| 2801 Huygens | September 28, 1935 |
| 2831 Stevin | September 17, 1930 |
| 2945 Zanstra | September 28, 1935 |
| 4296 van Woerkom | September 28, 1935 |
| 4359 Berlage | September 28, 1935 |
| 4511 Rembrandt | September 28, 1935 |
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References
{{reflist
|refs=
|title = Minor Planet Discoverers (by number)
|work = Minor Planet Center
|url = http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/MPDiscsNum.html
|date = 22 June 2016
|accessdate = 14 August 2016}}
|title = Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (1666) van Gent
|last = Schmadel | first = Lutz D.
|publisher = Springer Berlin Heidelberg
|page = 132
|date = 2007
|isbn = 978-3-540-00238-3
|doi = 10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_1667 |chapter = (1666) van Gent }}
|title = JPL Small-Body Database Browser: C/1941 K1 (van Gent)
|url = http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=1001042
|publisher = Jet Propulsion Laboratory
|accessdate = 14 August 2016}}
|title = JPL Small-Body Database Browser: C/1944 K2 (van Gent)
|url = http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=1001050
|publisher = Jet Propulsion Laboratory
|accessdate = 14 August 2016}}
|title = JPL Small-Body Database Browser: C/1943 W1 (van Gent-Peltier-Daimaca)
|url = http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=1001048
|publisher = Jet Propulsion Laboratory
|accessdate = 14 August 2016}}
}}
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- J.H. Oort, "In Memoriam Dr. H. van Gent", Hemel en Dampkring: Orgaan van de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Weer- en Sterrenkunde, 45 (1947), 159-160.
- [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1947MNSSA...6...34V W.H. van den Bos, "In Memoriam Dr. Hendrik van Gent", Monthly Notes of the Astronomical Society of South Africa, 6 (1947), 34-35.]
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