- John Broughton
John Broughton is an
Australia nastronomer . He is a prolific discoverer ofasteroid s. His observations are done atReedy Creek Observatory inQueensland (IAU Observatory Code: 428).Discoveries and research
Broughton discovered a Near Earth Object (NEO), mpl|2004 GA|1, on
April 11 ,2004 . This is considered the first amateur discovery of a large, potentially hazardous NEO.He discovered two
comet s, now designatedP/2005 T5 (Broughton) and C/2006 OF2 (Broughton), onNovember 3 ,2005 .He has produced two software applications, "scantracker" and "scanalyser", for the Drift-Scan Timing of Asteroid Occulations. These are [http://www.users.bigpond.com/reedycrk/driftscantiming.htm available online] for free.
Awards and grants
Broughton was one of five astronomers who won "Gene Shoemaker
Near-Earth Object Grants" from thePlanetary Society in 2002. The money was used to purchase aCCD camera .External links
* [http://www.users.bigpond.com/reedycrk/ Broughton's Website for the Reedy Creek Observatory, Including His Software]
* [http://neo.planetary.org/SocietyProjects/ShoemakerGrant/NEOGrantindex.html Mention of the Shoemaker Grant, and Broughton's discovery of mp|2004 GA|1]
* [http://www.planetary.org/programs/projects/neo_grants/update_200703.html#broughton March 2007 report of work done through the end of 2006, including discovery of C/2006 OF2 (Broughton)]
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