Edwin Holmes

Edwin Holmes

Edwin Holmes (born maybe 1842, [ [http://tuckley.org/genealogy/g009.html GedBrowser ] ] – died 1919) [ [http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/persons/obit/obit_h.html Obituary Notes of Astronomers ] ] [ [http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/MNRAS/0086//0000079.000.html 1925MNRAS..86...79E Page 79 ] ] was an English astronomer.

He discovered the periodic comet 17P/Holmes on November 6 1892, for which he was awarded the Donohoe Comet Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

References

*http://adsbit.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?1893PASP....5Q..42.


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