Poul Jensen (astronomer)
{| class="wikitable floatright" style="font-size: 0.9em; width: 270px;" |+ Minor planets discovered: 98 |- | ''see '' |}Poul B. Jensen is a Danish astronomer and a discoverer of 98 minor planets while working at Brorfelde Observatory. Between 1967 and 1969 he assisted in positional observations with the observatory's 7" transit circle. He is also a co-discoverer (with Carolyn S. Shoemaker) of the Comet Jensen-Shoemaker (1987g1). , he was still publishing in the ''Minor Planet Circulars''.
On 22 July 1994, the main-belt asteroid 5900 Jensen was named by his colleges Karl Augustesen and Hans Jørn Fogh Olsen in his and his wife's honor (). Provided by Wikipedia
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