- Source: Carl W. Hergenrother
Carl William Hergenrother (born 1973) is an American astronomer and discoverer of minor planets and comets.
As credited by the Minor Planet Center, he has discovered and co-discovered 32 numbered asteroids at the Bigelow Sky Survey during 1993–1999. He has also discovered a number of comets including the long-period comet, C/1996 R1 (Hergenrother-Spahr), and three periodic comets, 168P/Hergenrother, 175P/Hergenrother and P/1999 V1 (Catalina). He is also a member of the science and operations team of the 2016-launched OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, a sample return mission to study near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu.
The outer main-belt asteroid 3099 Hergenrother was named in his honor on 3 May 1996 (M.P.C. 27124).
List of discovered minor planets
See also
List of minor planet discoverers § C. W. Hergenrother
References
External links
Beyond Pluto: exploring the outer limits of the solar system, John Keith Davies, Cambridge University Press
Get to Know a Staff Scientist: Carl Hergenrother, Lunar & Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Ijiraq (satelit)
- Daftar penemu planet minor
- 101955 Bennu
- Carl W. Hergenrother
- Hergenröther
- 168P/Hergenrother
- List of astronomers
- 68P/Klemola
- Andromedids
- 3099 Hergenrother
- Meanings of minor-planet names: 3001–4000
- Meanings of minor-planet names: 7001–8000
- C/2001 A2 (LINEAR)
