Potsdam Observatory and Asteroid 5816 Potsdam - Potsdam, Germany
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Bernd das Brot Team
N 52° 22.729 E 013° 03.831
33U E 368213 N 5804936
The Einstein Tower was part of the former Potsdam Observatory
Waymark Code: WM103K2
Location: Brandenburg, Germany
Date Posted: 02/19/2019
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member saopaulo1
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Main belt asteroid 5816 Potsdam was discovered on January 11, 1989, 1989 by German astronomer Freimut Börngen and named after the Potsdam Observatory.

In 1992, the Astrophysical Observatory Potsdam (founded in 1874) and the Berlin Observatory (founded in 1700) merged into the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics, a privately funded research institute.

The Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics focuses primarely on cosmic magnetic fields on various scales and extra-galactic astrophysics, but it also operates the Einstein Tower, a sun observatory built in 1921.

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