Korado Korlević


Korado Korlević 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

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 Organisation 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 occupation of Croatia and Bosnia. 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. 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:
7364 Otonkučera22 May 1996
9244 Višnjan21 April 1998
9657 Učka24 February 1996
9813 Rozgaj13 October 1998
9814 Ivobenko23 October 1998
10175 Aenona14 February 1996
10241 Miličević9 January 1999
10415 Mali Lošinj23 October 1998
10421 Dalmatin9 January 1999
10423 Dajčić16 January 1999
10645 Brač14 March 1999
11191 Paskvić15 December 1998
11194 Mirna16 December 1998
11400 Raša15 January 1999
11406 Ucciocontin15 February 1999
11604 Novigrad21 October 1995
11706 Rijeka20 April 1998
12124 Hvar6 September 1999
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