Gary Hug is an American amateur astronomer and a prolific discoverer of minor planets, who, along with Graham E. Bell, operates the

Farpoint Observatory Farpoint Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the ''Northeast Kansas Amateur Astronomers' League'', or NEKAAL. It is located on the grounds of Mission Valley High School at Eskridge, near Auburn, Kansas, approxima ...

and Sandlot Observatory in Kansas, United States. He is the co-discoverer of comet 178P/Hug-Bell and was awarded twice a ''Gene Shoemaker NEO Grant'' for improved near-Earth object searches in 2009 and 2018, respectively. Hug also represents the ''Northeast Kansas Amateur Astronomer's League''.

List of discovered minor planets

References

External links

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Tracking Asteroids From A Backyard In Kansas
interview with Gary Hug
This Amateur Astronomer Built An Observatory In His Backyard
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