Philip Herbert Cowell

Minor planets discovered: 1
4358 Lynn	October 5, 1909

Philip Herbert Cowell (August 7, 1870, Calcutta – June 6, 1949) was a British astronomer.

Philip Herbert Cowell was born in calcutta, India and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.^[1] He became second chief assistant at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in 1896 and later became the Superintendent of HM Nautical Almanac Office during 1910–1930. He worked on celestial mechanics, and orbits of comets and minor planets in particular. He also carefully studied the discrepancy that then existed between the theory and observation of the position of the Moon.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May, 1906.^[2] He won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1911.

He discovered the asteroid 4358 Lynn.

He died in Aldeburgh, Suffolk. The asteroid 1898 Cowell is named after him.

References

1. ^ Cowell, Philip Herbert in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
2. ^ "Library and Archive Catalogue". royal Society. http://www2.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27cowell%27%29. Retrieved 24 December 2010. 

External links

Obituaries

• "Obituary Notices : Cowell, Philip Herbert". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 110: 125–128. 1950. Bibcode 1950MNRAS.110R.125.. 
• "Notes : Obituaries". The Observatory 69: 159. August 1949. Bibcode 1949Obs....69..159.. 
• "General Notes". Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 61: 241. October 1949. Bibcode 1949PASP...61..241.. doi:10.1086/126191. 

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Date of birth	August 7, 1870
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