CHRISTIAN HEINRICH FRIEDRICH PETERS

'Asteroids discovered: 48'

72 Feronia	May 29 1861
75 Eurydike	September 22 1862
77 Frigga	November 12 1862
85 Io	September 19 1865
88 Thisbe	June 15 1866
92 Undina	July 7 1867
98 Ianthe	April 18 1868
102 Miriam	August 22 1868
109 Felicitas	October 9 1869
111 Ate	August 14 1870
112 Iphigenia	September 19 1870
114 Kassandra	July 23 1871
116 Sirona	September 8 1871
122 Gerda	July 31 1872
123 Brunhild	July 31 1872
124 Alkeste	August 23 1872
129 Antigone	February 5 1873
130 Elektra	February 17 1873
131 Vala	May 24 1873
135 Hertha	February 18 1874
144 Vibilia	June 3 1875
145 Adeona	June 3 1875
160 Una	February 20 1876
165 Loreley	August 9 1876
166 Rhodope	August 15 1876
167 Urda	August 28 1876
176 Iduna	October 14 1877
185 Eunike	March 1 1878
188 Menippe	June 18 1878
189 Phthia	September 9 1878
190 Ismene	September 22 1878
191 Kolga	September 30 1878
194 Prokne	March 21 1879
196 Philomela	May 14 1879
199 Byblis	July 9 1879
200 Dynamene	July 27 1879
202 Chryseïs	September 11 1879
203 Pompeja	September 25 1879
206 Hersilia	October 13 1879
209 Dido	October 22 1879
213 Lilaea	February 16 1880
234 Barbara	August 12 1883
249 Ilse	August 16 1885
259 Aletheia	June 28 1886
261 Prymno	October 31 1886
264 Libussa	December 22 1886
270 Anahita	October 8 1887
287 Nephthys	August 25 1889

'Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters' (September 19, 1813–July 18, 1890) was a German-American astronomer, and one of the first to discover asteroids.
He was born in Schleswig-Holstein, then part of Denmark but later part of Germany, and later studied under Carl Friedrich Gauss. He spoke many languages and spent time in Italy and Ottoman Turkey before going to the United States in 1854.
Working at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York (near Utica), he was a prolific discoverer of asteroids, discovering 48 of them, beginning with 72 Feronia in 1861 and ending with 287 Nephthys in 1889.
He was involved in litigation in 1889 with his former assistant Charles A. Borst, and the "Great Star-Catalog Case" ''Peters v. Borst'' went before the Supreme Court of New York. The judge sided with Peters, but many astronomers and newspapers sided with Borst. Peters died not long after. After his death, the judgement was ultimately reversed on appeal and a new trial was ordered, but it never took place.
Besides asteroids, he co-discovered the periodic comet 80P/Peters-Hartley, and also discovered various nebulae and galaxies.

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