Kazimierz Kordylewski [SEP] country of citizenship
Kazimierz Kordylewski
Kazimierz Kordylewski (born 11 October 1903 in Poznań - 11 March 1981 in Kraków, Poland) was a Polish astronomer.
In 1956, he claimed the discovery of the Kordylewski clouds, large transient concentrations of dust at the Trojan points of the Earth-Moon system, which were reported to have been confirmed to exist in October 2018.
He studied at Posen University and Jagiellonian University, and earned a Ph.D. degree in 1932.
External links.
- A page about Kazimierz Kordylewski
- http://www.kordylewski.pl
Kordylewski cloud
Kordylewski clouds are large concentrations of dust that exist at the and Lagrangian points of the Earth–Moon system. They were first reported by Polish astronomer Kazimierz Kordylewski in the 1960s, and confirmed to exist in October 2018.
Discovery and observation.
The existence of a photometrically confirmable concentration of dust at the libration (Lagrangian) points was predicted by Josef Witkowski in 1956 (1951? ).
The clouds were first seen by Kordylewski in 1956. Between 6 March and 6 April 1961, he succeeded