Karl Ludwig Harding
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| 3 Juno | September 1, 1804 |
Karl Ludwig Harding (September 29, 1765 – August 31, 1834) was a German astronomer notable for having discovered the asteroid 3 Juno.
Harding was born in Lauenburg. In 1796 Johann Hieronymus Schröter hired Harding as a tutor for his son. In 1804, Harding discovered Juno at Schröter's observatory. He then went to Göttingen to assist Carl Friedrich Gauss.
In addition to Juno, he discovered three comets and published the Atlas novus coelestis which catalogued 120,000 stars.
The crater Harding on the Moon is named after him, and so is the asteroid 2003 Harding.
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