Erich Karkoschka, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Erich Karkoschka

American astronomer

Date of Birth: 06-Nov-1955

Place of Birth: Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Profession: astronomer

Nationality: United States, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Erich Karkoschka (born 1955) is a planetary researcher at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory of the University of Arizona.
He discovered a satellite of Uranus, S/1986 U 10 (later named Perdita) on photographs taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
He has assembled a number of movies including: the Huygens landing on the Titan moon, the seasonal patterns on Uranus, and a rare triple eclipse on Jupiter.
The Jupiter and Uranus images were released as US postage stamps in 2016His book, The Observer's Sky Atlas, has been translated into several languages as a resource for those interested in observing the sky. An asteroid, 30786 Karkoschka (1988 QC), is named in his honour.