02-22-2014 Astronomy anniversaries and new asteroids

Asteroid discoveries:

None today

Comet discoveries:

None today

Today's astronomy anniversaries:

• Discoveries:
• 1928 (86 years ago)- 30P/Reinmuth, a periodic comet with a period of 7.33 years, is discovered by Karl Reinmuth.
• Events:
• None
• Births:
• 1796 (218 years ago)- adolphe Quetelet, a Belgian astronomer who founded the Royal Observatory of Belgium, is born in Ghent, Belgium.
• 1824 (190 years ago)- Pierre Janssen, a French astronomer who discovered Helium on the Sun, is born at age 0.
• Deaths:
• None.

           Coming up later today:
 Rings of the Solar System 2: Saturn's rings.