Erwin Schwab

Erwin Schwab (born 1964) is a German amateur astronomer and discoverer of minor planets, who works at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, near Darmstadt, Germany.^[2][3][4] He has discovered and co-discovered more than 80 asteroids^[1] from the Starkenburg (611), Tzec Maun (D25) and Taunus observatories (B01). As volunteer scientist for the European Space Agency (ESA) he recovered near-Earth objects and comets.^[5][6][7] From 2014 to 2021 he recovered 30 lost comets, which equates to about 25% of the worldwide proportion in that timespan.^[8][9] Using the Schmidt telescope at Calar Alto Observatory (Z84) to search for a lost comet he discovered in 2019 a unique variable star – the first known eclipsing stream-fed intermediate polar, cataloged as J1832.4-1627 (VSX-Id of AAVSO: 000-BNG-512)^{[10][11][12][13]}