Korado Korlević (born 19 September 1958 in Poreč) is a Croatian teacher and prolific amateur astronomer, who ranks among the world's top 20 discoverers of minor planets. As of 2016, he is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 1162 numbered minor planets he made at Višnjan Observatory during 1996–2001. In addition, he is credited with the co-discovery of another 132 minor planets. His discoveries include the slowly-rotating outer main-belt asteroid 10415 Mali Lošinj, and 10645 Brač, a member of the Eunomia family of asteroids. He has also discovered two comets, namely 183P/Korlević-Jurić and 203P/Korlević.
Career + Minor planets discovered: 1295 see
Korlević became active in astronomy during his college years in Pula, where he became active within a local amateur astronomical society. He spent the next few years honing his art, by making telescopes and teaching others, including teaching posts at the Amateur Astronomical Society of Višnjan. In 1981 Korlević was qualified with a B.Sc. from the pedagogical faculty of Rijeka. Towards the end of the 1980s, after some time teaching at polytechnic schools, he co-founded the Yugoslav School of Astronomy, later known as the Višnjan School of Astronomy.
Within this organisation he was able to study meteors and asteroids more seriously, and played a central role in the forming of the International Meteor Organization as the organization formed. Korlević participated in the first International Tunguska Expedition. Motivated by new lines of research raise by this expedition, Korlević set about replacing the Višnjan Observatory's telescope, which had been badly damaged during the Serbian attack to Croatia. In particular, the telescope was sent to Sarajevo to help the defenders during the Siege of Sarajevo. In 1995 this new telescope produced the first astrometric line, and soon Korlević and his colleagues had discovered previously undiscovered asteroids, a big breakthrough for Croatian astronomy.
The Višnjan team have built a new observatory some 4 km away in Tićan to continue their work on Near Earth Objects (NEO). On the Tićan site they have also built the world's largest Schumann Antenna. They'll use this to prove that meteors penetrating the ionosphere have a significant effect on Schumann resonances.
Korlević the Educator
Korado Korlević was the editor of Nebeske krijesnice, an astronomy newsletter, and an often-quoted expert for astronomical articles on the topic of small bodies and impact. The teaching of astronomy, and passing his enthusiasm for it onto younger generations, is still a central priority for Korlević, and he spends much time teaching.
Affiliations Korlević is a member of the following organisations: International Meteor Organization The Planetary Society Spaceguard Foundation Astronomical Society of the Pacific European Council for High Ability (ECHA) National Geographic Society Croatian entomological society Lions International
Awards and honours Municipality of Višnjan-Visignano Award 2016 - "for his contributions to education, society and astronomy" Poreč city prize "San Mauro" — "for educational achievements" The asteroid 10201 Korado was named after him for his contributions to education, society and astronomy Edgar Wilson Award 1999 — "for comet discovery" Edgar Wilson Award 2000 — "for comet discovery" Ivan Filipović Award 2002 — Croatian Ministry of Education
List of discovered minor planets
7364 Otonkučera 22 May 1996 9244 Višnjan 21 April 1998 9657 Učka 24 February 1996 9813 Rozgaj 13 October 1998 9814 Ivobenko 23 October 1998 10175 Aenona 14 February 1996 10241 Miličević 9 January 1999 10415 Mali Lošinj 23 October 1998 10421 Dalmatin 9 January 1999 10423 Dajčić 16 January 1999 10645 Brač 14 March 1999 11191 Paskvić 15 December 1998 11194 Mirna 16 December 1998 11400 Raša 15 January 1999 11406 Ucciocontin 15 February 1999 11604 Novigrad 21 October 1995 11706 Rijeka 20 April 1998 12124 Hvar 6 September 1999 12512 Split 21 April 1998 12568 Kuffner 11 November 1998 12584 Zeljkoandreic 12 September 1999 13 October 1998 29 October 1998 2 October 1999 14 October 1998 20 October 1998 23 October 1998 26 October 1998 26 October 1998 9 September 1999 13408 Deadoklestic 10 October 1999 16 October 1999 8 November 1999 10 November 1999 14 October 1998 22 October 1998 23 October 1998 23 October 1998 23 October 1998 29 October 1998 29 October 1998 11 November 1998 8 November 1999 28 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