Background
Aksnes, Kaare was born on March 25, 1938 in Kvam, Hardanger, Norway. Son of Olav and Magnhild Olava (Westreng) Aksnes.
Aksnes, Kaare was born on March 25, 1938 in Kvam, Hardanger, Norway. Son of Olav and Magnhild Olava (Westreng) Aksnes.
He finished his secondary education in 1956, and graduated with the candidate.real. Degree in 1963, having studied in both Bergen and Oslo. He then worked in the United States for several years, and took the Doctor of Philosophy at Yale University in 1969.
From 1964 to 1965 he was a research assistant at Harestua. His doctor"s thesis is today a standard work within estimating the course of planets, moons, meteors, comets and artificial sounds. After several years at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts he returned from the United States to Norway in 1978, where he was employed at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment from 1978 to 1988.
He was also an assisting professor at the University of Tromsø from 1980.
In 1988 he was appointed as a professor at the University of Oslo. Since 1993 he is also responsible for the official Norwegian almanac.
Since 1990 he presides over the International Astronomical Union Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature, which maintains the astronomical naming conventions and planetary nomenclature for planetary bodies. Already in 1978, the asteroid 2067 Aksnes was named after Aksnes.
Member American Astronomical Society, International Astronomical Union (president working group for planetary system nomenclature since 1991, asteroid named Aksnes in 1978), Royal Norwegian Academy of Sciences.
Married Liv Kristin Maröy, September 19, 1959. Children: Kjersti, Astrid, Hallgjerd.