Name Kazimierz Kordylewski | Role Astronomer | |
Died March 11, 1981, Krakow, Poland | ||
Kazimierz Kordylewski (born 11 October 1903 in Poznań - 11 March 1981 in Kraków, Poland) was a Polish astronomer.
In 1956 he claimed the discovery of the Kordylewski clouds which are believed to be large transient concentrations of dust at the Trojan points of the Earth-Moon system. The existence of the clouds is still contested.
He studied ad Posen University and Jagiellonian University with a PhD in 1932.
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