Edward L. G. "Ted" Bowell (born 1943 in
London), is an American
astronomer. Bowell was educated at
Emanuel School
Emanuel School is an independent, co-educational day school in Battersea, south-west London. The school was founded in 1594 by Anne Sackville, Lady Dacre and Queen Elizabeth I and occupies a 12-acre (4.9 ha) site close to Clapham Junction ra ...
London,
University College, London, and the
University of Paris.
He was principal investigator of the
Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search (LONEOS). He has discovered a large number of
asteroid
An asteroid is a minor planet of the inner Solar System. Sizes and shapes of asteroids vary significantly, ranging from 1-meter rocks to a dwarf planet almost 1000 km in diameter; they are rocky, metallic or icy bodies with no atmosphere.
...
s, both as part of LONEOS and in his own right before LONEOS began. Among the latter are the Jovian asteroids
2357 Phereclos,
2759 Idomeneus,
2797 Teucer
2797 Teucer is a large Jupiter trojan from the Greek camp, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 4 June 1981, by American astronomer Edward Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station near Flagstaff, Arizona, in the United States. The dark D- ...
,
2920 Automedon,
3564 Talthybius,
4057 Demophon, and
(4489) 1988 AK. He also co-discovered the periodic
comet 140P/Bowell-Skiff and the non-periodic comet
C/1980 E1.
The outer
main-belt asteroid
2246 Bowell was named in his honor.
The official naming citation was published on 1 January 1981 ().
List of discovered minor planets
Edward Bowell discovered 571
minor planets.
References
External links
Edward "Ted" Bowell,
Lowell Observatory
Lowell Observatory is an astronomical observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, United States. Lowell Observatory was established in 1894, placing it among the oldest observatories in the United States, and was designated a National Historic Landmark ...
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1943 births
20th-century American astronomers
Alumni of University College London
Discoverers of asteroids
Discoverers of comets
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Living people
People educated at Emanuel School
University of Paris alumni
British expatriates in France
British emigrants to the United States