Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld

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Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld bigraphy, stories - Dutch astronomer

Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld : biography

1921 –

Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld is a Dutch astronomer.

In a jointly-credited trio with Tom Gehrels and her husband Cornelis Johannes van Houten, she was an extremely prolific discoverer of many thousands of asteroids. Gehrels did a sky survey using the 48-inch Schmidt telescope at Palomar Observatory and shipped the plates to the van Houtens at Leiden Observatory, who analyzed them for new asteroids. The trio are jointly credited with several thousand asteroid discoveries.

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