Roy A. Tucker
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title:
Roy A. Tucker
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Roy A. Tucker was an American astronomer best known for the co-discovery of near-Earth asteroid 99942 Apophis along with David J. Tholen and Fabrizio Bernardi of the University of Hawaii. He was a prolific discoverer of minor planets, credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 702 numbered minor planets between 1996 and 2010. He also discovered two comets: 328P/LONEOS–Tucker and C/2004 Q1, a Jupiter-family and near-parabolic comet, respectively.
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American astronomer (1951-2021)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_A._Tucker
date created:
2004-06-27T20:44:05Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T09:02:17Z
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