You have full access to this open access chapter, Download reference work entry PDF
1928 TK. Discovered 1928 Oct. 7 by G. N. Neujmin at Simeis.
Named in memory of Pavel Petrovich Parenago (1906–1960), a professor at Moscow University, a corresponding member of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences and the founder of the Moscow school of stellar astronomy. In the early 1940s he developed a method for the determination of the interstellar absorption of light. He established the existence of the subdwarf sequence and its location on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. He also determined the galactic orbit of the Sun and the first more-or-less reliable determination of the velocity of the Galaxy relative to its neighbors. (M 6955)
Name proposed by the Institute for Theoretical Astronomy.
Parenago is also honored by a lunar crater.
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2003 Springer-Verlag
About this entry
Cite this entry
(2003). (2484) Parenago. In: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_2485
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_2485
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-00238-3
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-29925-7
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive