Charles T. Kowal
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Charles T. Kowal
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Charles Thomas Kowal was an American astronomer known for his observations and discoveries in the Solar System. As a staff astronomer at Caltech's Mount Wilson and Palomar Mountain observatories between 1961 and 1984, he found the first of a new class of Solar System objects, the centaurs, discovered two moons of the planet Jupiter, and discovered or co-discovered a number of asteroids, comets and supernovae. He was awarded the James Craig Watson Medal for his contributions to astronomy in 1979.
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American astronomer (1940–2011)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_T._Kowal
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2004-04-07T20:35:32Z
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2024-09-01T08:24:59Z
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