Holger Thiele

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797 Montana	November 17, 1914	{{MPC\|797}}
843 Nicolaia	September 30, 1916	{{MPC\|843}}
1847 Stobbe	February 1, 1916	{{MPC\|1847}}
3229 Solnhofen	August 9, 1916	{{MPC\|3229}}

Holger Thiele (September 25, 1878 – June 5, 1946) was a Danish American astronomer and discoverer of minor planets and comets.{{Cite web |url=http://vitals.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ca/death/search.cgi |title=California Death Records |access-date=2009-10-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120101054826/http://vitals.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ca/death/search.cgi |archive-date=2012-01-01 |url-status=dead }}

He was the son of Thorvald Nicolai Thiele (1838–1910), the noted Danish astronomer, actuary and mathematician, after whom the main-belt asteroid 1586 Thiele is named.

Holger Thiele is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 4 numbered asteroids during 1914–1916. He also discovered the comet C/1906 V1 and calculated the orbits of other comets. He worked at Hamburg-Bergedorf Observatory at Bergedorf, in Hamburg, Germany. In 1912, he immigrated to the United States.[http://www.ellisisland.org/search/passRecord.asp?MID=16227418720156843072&FNM=HOLGER&LNM=THIELE&PLNM=THIELE&CGD=M&first_kind=1&last_kind=0&TOWN=null&SHIP=null&RF=2&pID=105009010033 The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc]

In 1917, he started working as a fellow for the University of California at Lick Observatory, near San Jose, California. Holger Thiele died in Alameda County in 1946.[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1917PA.....25..629. SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)]

Selected works

Corrected elements and ephemeris of minor planet 1924 TD (Baade) (University of California Press. 1925)
Elements and ephemeris of Comet d 1927 (Stearns) (University of California Press. 1927)