Alfred Schmitt

Asteroids discovered
1215 BoyerJanuary 19, 1932
1622 ChacornacMarch 15, 1952
1614 GoldschmidtApril 18, 1952
3156 EllingtonMarch 15, 1953

Alfred Schmitt (30 November 1907 – 2 April 1975) was a French astronomer. Schmitt worked at Algiers Observatory in the 1930s and 1940s and at the Royal Observatory in Uccle, Belgium in the 1950s. From 1955 to 1958 he was also director of the Quito Observatory in Ecuador. He extensively studied minor planets and comets and is credited with having discovered four asteroids.

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