Eugène Joseph Delporte Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Eugène Joseph Delporte (January 10 1882 – October 19 1955) was a Belgian astronomer.He discovered 66 asteroids, including notably 1221 Amor (the namesake of the Amor asteroids) and the Apollo asteroid 2101 Adonis.
He discovered or co-discovered some comets as well, including periodic comet 57P/du Toit-Neujmin-Delporte.
In 1930 he fixed the modern boundaries between all the constellations in the sky, along lines of right ascension and declination for the epoch 1875.
A crater on the Moon is named after him.
| 1052 Belgica | November 15 1925 |
| 1068 Nofretete | September 13 1926 |
| 1122 Neith | September 17 1928 |
| 1124 Stroobantia | October 6 1928 |
| 1128 Astrid | March 10 1929 |
| 1145 Robelmonte | February 3 1929 |
| 1168 Brandia | August 25 1930 |
| 1170 Siva | September 29 1930 |
| 1176 Lucidor | November 15 1930 |
| 1199 Geldonia | September 14 1931 |
| 1217 Maximiliana | March 13 1932 |
| 1221 Amor | March 12 1932 |
| 1222 Tina | June 11 1932 |
| 1239 Queteleta | February 4 1932 |
| 1261 Legia | March 23 1933 |
| 1274 Delportia | November 28 1932 |
| 1276 Ucclia | January 24 1933 |
| 1280 Baillauda | August 18 1933 |
| 1285 Julietta | August 21 1933 |
| 1288 Santa | August 26 1933 |
| 1290 Albertine | August 21 1933 |
| 1291 Phryne | September 15 1933 |
| 1293 Sonja | September 26 1933 |
| 1294 Antwerpia | October 24 1933 |
| 1329 Eliane | March 23 1933 |
| 1341 Edmée | January 27 1935 |
| 1350 Rosselia | October 3 1934 |
| 1361 Leuschneria | August 30 1935 |
| 1363 Herberta | August 30 1935 |
| 1366 Piccolo | November 29 1932 |
| 1374 Isora | October 21 1935 |
| 1375 Alfreda | October 22 1935 |
| 1388 Aphrodite | September 24 1935 |
| 1401 Lavonne | October 22 1935 |
| 1433 Geramtina | October 30 1937 |
| 1476 Cox | September 10 1936 |
| 1486 Marilyn | August 23 1938 |
| 1491 Balduinus | February 23 1938 |
| 1493 Sigrid | August 26 1938 |
| 1543 Bourgeois | September 21 1941 |
| 1560 Strattonia | December 3 1942 |
| 1664 Felix | February 4 1929 |
| 1672 Gezelle | January 29 1935 |
| 1698 Christophe | February 10 1934 |
| 1707 Chantal | September 8 1932 |
| 1711 Sandrine | January 29 1935 |
| 1722 Goffin | February 23 1938 |
| 1724 Vladimir | February 28 1932 |
| 1754 Cunningham | March 29 1935 |
| 1848 Delvaux | August 18 1933 |
| 1878 Hughes | August 18 1933 |
| 1926 Demiddelaer | May 2 1935 |
| 2101 Adonis | February 12 1936 |
| 2213 Meeus | September 24 1935 |
| 2276 Warck | August 18 1933 |
| 2331 Parvulesco | March 12 1936 |
| 2534 Houzeau | November 2 1931 |
| 2545 Verbiest | January 26 1933 |
| 2713 Luxembourg | February 19 1938 |
| 2819 Ensor | October 20 1933 |
| 2913 Horta | October 12 1931 |
| 3534 Sax | December 15 1936 |
| 3567 Alvema | November 15 1930 |
| 3605 Davy | November 28 1932 |
| 6354 Vangelis | April 3 1934 |
| 7043 Godart | September 2 1934 |
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