Paul Götz
# Paul Götz

Minor planets discovered: 20 :

| 520 Franziska | October 27, 1903 |
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| 538 Friederike | July 18, 1904 |
| 542 Susanna | August 15, 1904 |
| 543 Charlotte | September 11, 1904 |
| 544 Jetta | September 11, 1904 |
| 545 Messalina | October 3, 1904 |
| 546 Herodias | October 10, 1904 |
| 547 Praxedis | October 14, 1904 |
| 548 Kressida | October 14, 1904 |
| 554 Peraga | January 8, 1905 |
| 556 Phyllis | January 8, 1905 |
| 563 Suleika | April 6, 1905 |
| 564 Dudu | May 9, 1905 |
| 566 Stereoskopia | May 28, 1905 |
| 567 Eleutheria | May 28, 1905 |
| 568 Cheruskia | July 26, 1905 |
| 571 Dulcinea | September 4, 1905 |
| 572 Rebekka | September 19, 1905 |
| 576 Emanuela | September 22, 1905 |
| 1418 Fayeta | September 22, 1903 |
| $^1$ with Max Wolf $^2$ with August Kopff ||

Paul Götz (1883–1962) was a German astronomer and discoverer of 20 minor planets between 1903 and 1905.

He did his Ph.D. dissertation in 1907 at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl (Königstuhl Observatory, near Heidelberg) at the University of Heidelberg.

At the time, the observatory at Heidelberg was a center for asteroid discovery under the direction of Max Wolf, and several past and future fellow Ph.D.s (Raymond Smith Dugan, Joseph Helffrich, Franz Kaiser, Karl Reinmuth, Emil Ernst, Alfred Bohrmann) made a number of asteroid discoveries. Thus the asteroid discoveries by "P. Gotz" at Heidelberg in this time frame are undoubtedly identified with the Paul Götz who got his Ph.D. in 1907.

The main-belt asteroid 2278 Götz was named in his memory in 1991 (M.P.C. 18447).

