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Graham E. Bell
Graham E. Bell is an American amateur astronomer and prolific discoverer of minor planets. Along with amateur astronomer Gary Hug, he operates the U.S. Farpoint Observatory in Eskridge, Kansas. He is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 56 numbered minor planets between 1998 and 2000. He also co-discovered 178P/Hug-Bell, a periodic comet. List of discovered minor planets References The American Association of Amateur Astronomers - Graham Bell 20th-century American astronomers Discoverers of asteroids Discoverers of comets Discoveries by Graham E. Bell, * Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-astronomer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minor Planet
According to the International Astronomical Union (IAU), a minor planet is an astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun that is exclusively classified as neither a planet nor a comet. Before 2006, the IAU officially used the term ''minor planet'', but that year's meeting reclassified minor planets and comets into dwarf planets and small Solar System bodies (SSSBs).Press release, IAU 2006 General Assembly: Result of the IAU Resolution votes International Astronomical Union, August 24, 2006. Accessed May 5, 2008. Minor planets include asteroids ( |
