"Norwegian" Asteroid 2067 Aksnes
Taken by Odd Trondal on April 22, 2021 @ Oslo
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Asteroid 2067 Aksnes (1936 DD) is named in honor of the Norwegian astronomer Kaare Aksnes ( 2. picture ) who worked at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in the United States in the 1970s and later at the Department of Theoretical Astrophysics in Oslo Norway

In 1981 he got the NASA Group Achievement Award for his contribution to orbital calculations for the Voyager project.

And he contributed significantly to the calculations of the complex trajectory of the Rosetta space probe, which after ten years as a "cosmic billiard ball" in our solar system reached and landed on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on November 12, 2014.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaare_Aksnes
https://snl.no/Kaare_Aksnes

The Asteroid was discovered on 23th February 1936 by Y. Väisälä ( 3. picture ) at the Turku Observatory or Iso-Heikkilä Observatory in the very south of Finland.

Time: 21:10UT 2021-04-22 Exp.13 x 65 sec.
Tel: C14 @ f/7.88 AP7 CCD -40°C 1.77"/pix Paramount GT-1100S
Odd Trondal Obs.code 238 (Uranium).

Software used:TheSky6,CCDSoft 5, MSB Astroart 2.0, 8.0, Paint

Previous images of Norwegian Asteroids:

1646 Rosselandl on January 2, 2011 @ Oslo

392142 Solheim on March 20, 2025 @ Oslo

7279 Hagfors on March 13, 2025 @ Oslo

853 Nansenia on March 13, 2025 @ Oslo

9836 Aarseth on March 6, 2025 @ Oslo

149968 Trondal on March 6, 2025 @ Oslo


Asteroid 329 Svea

Asteroid 1656 Suomi

Asteroid 1573 Väisälä

Photographer's website:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/odd_trondal/
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