614 Pia [SEP] discoverer or inventor
614 Pia
614 Pia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter in the asteroid belt.
August Kopff discovered 614 Pia on 11 October 1906 at Heidelberg, Germany.
The Name.
Its name may have been inspired by the Pia Observatory at Trieste, Italy, which German astronomer Johann Nepomuk Krieger (1865–1902) named for his wife, Pia. Pia is Italian for "pious."
Pia
Pia or PIA may refer to:
Places.
- Pia, Pyrénées-Orientales, a French commune
- Pia, Iran, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
- 614 Pia, an asteroid
People.
- Pia (given name), a feminine given name
- Pia (surname)
- Pia Ravenna, stage name of Finnish opera singer Hjördis Sophie Tilgmann (1894-1964)
- Piá (footballer, born 1982), full name João Batista Inácio,