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| 422 Berolina | 8 October 1896 |
| 433 Eros | 13 August 1898 |
Carl Gustav Witt (29 October 1866 – 3 January 1946) was a German astronomer and discoverer of two asteroids who worked at the Berlin Urania Observatory, a popular observatory of the Urania astronomical association of Berlin.<ref name="springer-Witt" />
He wrote a doctoral thesis under the direction of Julius Bauschinger.
Witt discovered two asteroids, most notably 433 Eros, the first asteroid with a male name, and the first known near-Earth object.<ref name="MPC-Eros" /><ref name="springer-Eros" /> His first minor planet discovery was the main-belt asteroid 422 Berolina, that bears the Latin name of his adoptive city.<ref name="springer-Berolina" />
The minor planet 2732 Witt – an A-type asteroid from the main-belt, discovered by Max Wolf at Heidelberg Observatory in 1926 – was named in his memory by American astronomer and MPC's longtime director, Brian G. Marsden.<ref name="springer-Witt" /> Naming citation was published on 22 September 1983 (Template:Small).<ref name="MPC-Circulars-Archive" />