{{Short description|German priest and amateur astronomer (1905–1994)}} {{More footnotes|date=August 2022}} '''Otto Kippes''' (23 July 1905 – 2 February 1994) was a German Catholic priest and amateur astronomer, born in Bamberg, Bavaria. He was acknowledged especially for his work in asteroid orbit calculations, which brought him the Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in 1991.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.astrosociety.org/membership/awards/pastamateur.html|title=ASP: Past Amateur Achievement Winners|website=www.astrosociety.org}}</ref>

In 1959, the Berlin Academy of Sciences awarded him the Leibniz Medal for his contributions in the identification of minor planets.<ref>{{Cite web |title=ND-Archiv: Neues Deutschland vom 03.07.1959 |url=https://www.nd-archiv.de/ausgabe/1959-07-03 |access-date=2025-04-18 |website=www.nd-archiv.de}}</ref> The main belt asteroid 1780&nbsp;Kippes was named in his honour.<ref name="springer" /> Kippes in turn had successfully proposed to name several asteroids after fellow amateur astronomers. He died on 2 February 1994 in Würzburg, Bavaria.

== See also == * List of Roman Catholic scientist-clerics

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<ref name="springer">{{cite book |last = Schmadel | first = Lutz D. |title = Dictionary of Minor Planet Names |publisher = Springer Berlin Heidelberg |chapter = (1780) Kippes |page = 143 |date = 2007 |isbn = 978-3-540-29925-7 |doi = 10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_1781}}</ref>

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{{Refbegin}} *{{cite web | last =Lehmann | first = Gerhard |author2=Jens Kandler |author3=André Knöfel | title = Amateurastronomen am Sternenhimmel | date = 27 October 2004 | url = http://www.kleinplanetenseite.de/Versch/kphimmel.htm | accessdate = 2008-12-21}} *{{cite journal | last = Kowalski | first = Richard | title = Stručná historie výzkumu planetek-význam amatérů | journal = Corona Pragensis | volume = | issue = 2001/6 | pages = 7–8 | url = http://praha.astro.cz/crp/0106a.phtml | accessdate = 2007-08-22 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070818220434/http://praha.astro.cz/crp/0106a.phtml <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 2007-08-18}} *{{cite web | title = Past Amateur Achievement Winners | publisher = Astronomical Society of the Pacific | url = http://www.astrosociety.org/membership/awards/pastamateur.html | accessdate = 2007-08-22}} *{{cite web | title = 1780 Kippes (A906 RA) | work = JPL Small-Body Database Browser | publisher = Jet Propulsion Laboratory | url = http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=1780+Kippes | accessdate = 2008-12-21}} {{Refend}}

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