Karl Ludwig Harding ( September 29, 1765 - August 31, 1834 ) is a German astronomer who discovered the asteroid Juno .
| Karl Ludwig Harding | |
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| Date of Birth | September 29, 1765 |
| Place of Birth | Lauenburg |
| Date of death | August 31, 1834 (68 years old) |
| Place of death | Goettingen |
| A country | Germany |
| Scientific field | astronomy |
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| Awards and prizes | member of the Royal Society of London Lalande Prize of the Paris Academy of Sciences ( 1805 ) |
| Discovered asteroids : 1 | |
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| 3 Juno | September 1, 1804 |
In 1804 , Johann Hieronymus Schroeter hired Harding as a tutor for his son. In the same year, Harding discovered Juno at the Schröter Observatory . Harding later worked in Göttingen as an assistant to Gauss .
In addition to Juno, Harding discovered three comets and published Atlas novus coelestis , a star catalog with 120,000 stars .
The Harding Crater on the Moon is named after him, as is the 2003 Harding asteroid .