Edward L. G. "Ted" Bowell (born 1943 in

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), is an American

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. 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 ...

London,

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, and the

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. He was principal investigator of the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search (LONEOS). He has discovered a large number of

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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

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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

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Edward "Ted" Bowell
, Lowell Observatory {{DEFAULTSORT:Bowell, Edward L. G. 1943 births 20th-century American astronomers Alumni of University College London Discoverers of asteroids Discoverers of comets * Living people People educated at Emanuel School University of Paris alumni British expatriates in France British emigrants to the United States