8677 Charlier | Discovered 1992 Mar. 2 at the European Southern Observatory in the course of the Uppsala-ESO Survey of Asteroids and Comets. |
Carl Vilhelm Ludvig Charlier (1862-1934), professor of astronomy at Uppsala during 1890-1897 and later at Lund, worked in several fields of astronomy, including celestial mechanics and photometry. He was one of the leading founders of stellar statistics, applying mathematical statistics to astronomical problems. |
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