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Eugène Joseph Delporte (January 10 1882 – October 19 1955) was a Belgian astronomer.
He discovered a total of 66 asteroids. Notable discoveries include 1221 Amor (which lent its name to the Amor asteroids) and the Apollo asteroid 2101 Adonis. He discovered or co-discovered some comets as well, including periodic comet 57P/du Toit-Neujmin-Delporte. He worked in the Belgian Royal Observatory, situated in the town of Uccle (after which the asteroid 1276 Ucclia is named).
In 1930 he fixed the modern boundaries between all of the constellations in the sky, along lines of right ascension and declination for the epoch 1875.
A crater on the Moon is named after him.
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