902 Probitas [SEP] discoverer or inventor
902 Probitas
902 Probitas is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was discovered by an Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa in Vienna on 3 September 1918.
Palisa was awarded the Valz Prize from the French Academy of Sciences in 1906.
The Phocaea main-belt asteroid 914 Palisana, discovered by Max Wolf in 1919, and the lunar crater "Palisa" were named in his honour.
Minor planets 902 Probitas, 975 Perseverantia, and 996 Hilaritas that he discovered were given names after his death for traits qualities associated with him: adherence to the highest principles and ideals, perservernce and happy or contented mind. Names were given by Joseph Rheden with the support of Palisa's