Schelte J. Bus
Schelte John "Bobby" Bus (born in 1956)[1] is an astronomer at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy.
| Asteroids found: 1576 (as of July 2006) Only a few unusual ones are listed here | ||
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| 2135 Aristaeus[1] | April 17, 1977 | Apollo asteroid |
| 3122 Florence | March 2, 1981 | Amor asteroid |
| 3240 Laocoon[1] | November 7, 1978 | Trojan asteroid |
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Bus has found or co-found over 1,000 asteroids as well as the comet 87P/Bus. 3254 Bus was named after him by Edward L. G. Bowell when he found it in 1982.
References
- "Compositional structure in the asteroid belt : results of a spectroscopic survey". DSpace. Retrieved 2006-10-18.
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