Original: Born on January 10 , 1872 to Eugène - Marie and Alice Delporte , in Antwerp , Belgium , his father served as a member of the Force Publique in the Congo Free State and the family subsequently lived in the Belgian Congo from 1884-1896 , his brother , Patrice Yves Delporte was born in Leopoldville ( now Kinshasa ) in 1880 .
Simplified: Some of his notable discoveries are 1221 Amor ( whose name was later used for the Amor asteroids ) and the Apollo asteroid , 2101 Adonis .