Richard Martin West
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Richard Martin West
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Richard Martin West is a Danish astronomer and discoverer of astronomical objects with a long career at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and at the International Astronomical Union (IAU). He discovered numerous comets, including Comet West, which was one of the brightest comets of the 1970s, and the periodic comets 76P/West–Kohoutek–Ikemura and 123P/West–Hartley. He is also credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 40 minor planets between 1976 and 1986, including 2146 Ste
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Danish astronomer
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