Asteroids named after people called Lowell
馃懚 Lowell as a baby name
Named by the Lowell Observatory for Clyde W. Tombaugh, the discoverer of Pluto, on the occasion of a symposium on Pluto, held on the fiftieth anniversary of its discovery, 1980 Feb. 18. Tombaugh marked, during the course of his blink examination, over 4000 minor planets on plates obtained with the 0.33-m photographic telescope during the trans-Saturnian search program at the Lowell Observatory.Discovered 24 March 1931 by C. O. Lampland, Flagstaff
Lowell Kevin Rudolph (b. 1950) contributed to NASA's Lucy Trojan asteroid mission as the Spacecraft Design Lead and Lockheed Martin Proposal Coordinator. He was the Spacecraft Design Lead for the Juno mission to Jupiter, and contributed to the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return and the Cassini mission to Saturn.Discovered 2 March 1981 by S. J. Bus, Siding Spring
Lowell Observatory astronomer Otto G. Franz (b. 1931) has studied binary stars using photography, area scanning techniques, speckle interferometry, by means of spectroscopic measurements of radial velocity, and using the Fine Guidance Sensors of the Hubble Space Telescope. The name was suggested by L. H. Wasserman.Discovered 24 January 1982 by E. Bowell, Anderson Mesa
An astronomer at Lowell Observatory from 1969 until 2007, Nathaniel Miller White (b. 1941) studied close binaries and measured stellar angular diameters using high-speed photometry of lunar occultations. From 1992 until his retirement, he was Lowell's lead scientist in the Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer project.Discovered 19 September 1987 by E. Bowell, Anderson Mesa
Lowell Clark Green (b. 1925), a Lutheran pastor/theologian for more than half a century and Renaissance/Reformation scholar, now resident in Buffalo, New York, has given constant support and encouragement to the life and astronomical career of his son, D. W. E. Green, who found the identifications for this object.Discovered 30 September 1973 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T., Palomar
LONEOS, the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search, looks for and has discovered many minor planets and comets that approach Earth. The LONEOS 0.59-m 茠/1.91 Schmidt telescope, which began full-time operations in March 1998, can survey the entire sky accessible from Anderson Mesa, Arizona, every month.Discovered 4 September 1999 by C. W. Juels, Fountain Hills
W. Lowell Putnam IV (b. 1954) is the 5th Sole Trustee of Lowell Observatory. He was involved in early-generation television traffic systems, holding senior software development and business analyst positions in the broadcast industry. Lowell Observatory's reputation as a research and educational organization has grown significantly under his leadership.Discovered 18 May 1998 by LONEOS, Anderson Mesa
Lowell Cogburn (b. 1955) is the OSIRIS REx spacecraft lead dynamics analyst responsible for Touch and Go dynamic analysis and Sample Return Capsule release dynamic analysis. He was the Dynamics lead on the GRAIL lunar mission.Discovered 3 November 2004 by CSS, Catalina
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