Otto August Rosenberger
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Otto August Rosenberger (August 10, 1800 – January 23, 1890) was a Baltic German astronomer from Tukums in Courland.
Rosenberger graduated from the University of Königsberg, and was noted for his study of comets. He won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1837. He died in Halle, Prussian Saxony.
The crater Rosenberger on the Moon is named after him.
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- Otto August Rosenberger (German)
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