It was discovered on March 26 1971 by Dutch astronomers Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld on Palomar Schmidt plates taken by Tom Gehrels.
9680 Molina (3557 P-L) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 22, 1960, by C.J. van Houten and I. van Houten-Groenefeld on plates taken by T. Gehrels with the Schmidt telescope at Palomar Observatory.
He is a member of the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) team, an all-sky survey using the UK's 1.2m Schmidt telescope in Australia, as well as working with the planned GAIA mission.
Helmut Schmidt | camera | Leica Camera | digital camera | Candid Camera | Aztec Camera | Eric Schmidt | Man with a Movie Camera | Helle Thorning-Schmidt | Single-lens reflex camera | hidden camera | Harold von Schmidt | Hans Schmidt | Otto Schmidt | Mike Schmidt | Camera Work | Schmidt camera | Karl Schmidt-Rottluff | Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt | Jean Schmidt | Caméra d'Or | Wolfgang Schmidt | Thermographic camera | Stanley F. Schmidt | Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope | Schmidt | Miloslav Schmidt | Man With a Movie Camera | John Schmidt | Hans Schmidt (wrestler) |
The Schmidt telescope was moved to Calar Alto in 1976 from the Hamburg Observatory at Bergedorf, where it had been completed in 1954.