2227 Otto Struve

2227 Otto Struve is the name of an asteroid which was discovered at Goethe Link Observatory near Brooklyn, Indiana by the Indiana Asteroid Program. It is named for the astronomer Otto Struve (1897–1963), who discovered two asteroids himself (991 McDonalda and 992 Swasey).

Minor planets navigator
  • 2226 Cunitza
  • 2227 Otto Struve
  • 2228 Soyuz-Apollo
Small Solar System bodies
Minor planets
  • Designation
  • Groups
  • Moons
  • Meanings of names
  • Pronunciation of names
Asteroids
  • Aten asteroid
  • Families
  • Jupiter Trojans
  • Main-belt
  • Near-Earth
  • Spectral types
Distant minor planets
  • Centaurs
  • Damocloids
  • Neptune trojans
  • Trans-Neptunian objects
    • Detached
    • Kuiper belt
    • Oort cloud
    • Scattered disc
Comets
  • Extinct
  • Great
  • Lost
  • Main-belt
  • Non-periodic
  • Periodic
  • Sungrazing
Meteoroids
  • Bolide
  • Dust
  • Fireball
  • Meteor
  • Meteorite
  • Tektite
Lists / categories
  • Asteroid groups and families
  • Asteroid moons
  • Binary asteroids
  • Minor planets

Famous quotes containing the word otto:

    “Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world we are seated on nothing but our own arse.”
    —Wendell Mayes, U.S. screenwriter. Otto Preminger. CINCPAC II (Henry Fonda)