15 November 1925
Asteroid Belgica
Discovers the asteroid later numbered and named 1052 Belgica.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Uccle in Belgium. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Discovers the asteroid later numbered and named 1052 Belgica.
Adds a Belgian-named object to the catalogue of minor planets.
Publishes definitive boundaries for the eighty-eight modern constellations.
Standardizes celestial mapping for the International Astronomical Union.
Co-discovers the bright comet later known as Arend-Roland.
Identifies a comet that becomes a prominent naked-eye object in 1957.
Provenance
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