Freya Hoffmeister

Freya Hoffmeister (born May 10, 1964) is a German business owner and athlete who holds several sea kayaking endurance records. In 2009 she completed a circumnavigation of Australia solo and unassisted, becoming the first woman and only the second person to do so. On May 3 2015, she became the first person to solo circumnavigate the continent of South America.

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Hoffmeister has been athletic from a young age, able to walk on her hands around her family home at the age of six. She competed as a gymnast, but grew too tall for the sport at age sixteen. She shifted to skeet shooting, and at twenty-three took up skydiving, completing 1,500 jumps, including the first-ever tandem jump onto the North Pole. She is also former Miss Germany beauty contestant, coming in sixth in the competition.

Hoffmeister owns a chain of seven franchise ice cream cafes, a salad bistro and a Christmas shop.

Iceland circumnavigation

In 2007 Freya and Greg Stamer completed the fastest-ever sea kayak circumnavigation of Iceland in 33 days.

Hoffmeister

Hoffmeister is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:

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Hoffmeister (crater)

Hoffmeister is a lunar impact crater that is located on the Moon's far side, to the northwest of the huge walled plain Mendeleev. Some distance to the north of Hoffmeister lies the crater Siedentopf, and to the west-northwest is Gavrilov.

This is a somewhat eroded crater with Hoffmeister N attached to the southern rim. A small crater with a high albedo lies along the common rim between Hoffmeister and this satellite. A small crater also lies along the northwestern rim of Hoffmeister. The interior floor of Hoffmeister is relatively featureless.

Satellite craters

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Hoffmeister.

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1726 Hoffmeister

1726 Hoffmeister, provisional designation 1933 OE, is a dark, carbonaceous asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, about 26 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth at Heidelberg Observatory on 24 July 1933.

The C-type asteroid with a Cb-subtype in the SMASS taxonomy, orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.7–2.9 AU once every 4 years and 8 months (1,701 days). Its orbit shows an eccentricity of 0.04 and is tilted by 3 degrees to the plane of the ecliptic. It has a rotation period of 11.7 hours and an very low geometric albedo of 0.04. It is the lowest-numbered and probably the largest member of the small, very compact dynamical Hoffmeister family. Based upon the low albedo, it was most likely formed from the breakup of a carbon-rich asteroid about 50–100 km in diameter within the past several hundred million years.

The minor planet was named in memory of German astronomer Cuno Hoffmeister (1892–1968), founder and later director of the Sonneberg Observatory after which the asteroid 1039 Sonneberga is named. He was best known as a prolific discoverer and observer of variable stars, for his extensive work on meteors, and for the discovery of a comet and several minor planets. The minor planet 4183 Cuno and the lunar crater Hoffmeister are also named in his honor.