Christopher Aikman
| Discovered asteroid : 4 | |
|---|---|
| (7840) Hendrika | 5th October 1994 |
| (10870) Gwendolen | September 25, 1996 |
| (24899) Dominiona | January 14, 1997 |
| (246913) 1998 SU 63 | September 23, 1998 |
Christopher Aikman (* 1943 in Ottawa ) is a Canadian astrophysicist and astronomer .
He spent most of his professional life (from 1968 to 1997) at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory (DAO) in Saanich , British Columbia . His initial research was concerned with the spectroscopic examination of chemically suspicious suns, the surface composition of which deviates markedly from that of our sun . From 1991 to 1997, when he was discontinued, he led a program to track asteroids that were on Earth orbit . To do this, he used the 72 ″ telescope designed by John Stanley Plaskett .
He represented Canada at the Spaceguard Foundation, a group that deals with the threat to Earth from asteroid impacts. As a by-product of this research, he was able to record the discovery of four asteroids.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Literature by and about Christopher Aikman in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- GCL Aikman, JE Hesser: Annual Report of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory . In: Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society . 30, No. 1, 1998, pp. 472-489. bibcode : 1998BAAS ... 30..472A .
- G. Christopher L. Aikman, DD Balam; JB Tatum: Astrometric recovery and follow-up of near-Earth asteroids . In: Planetary and Space Science . 42, No. 8, 1994, pp. 611-621. bibcode : 1994P & SS ... 42..611T . doi : 10.1016 / 0032-0633 (94) 90036-1 .
- CR Cowley, GCL Aikman: Nuclear and nonnuclear abundance patterns in the manganese stars . In: Astrophysical Journal . 196, 1975, pp. 521-524. bibcode : 1975ApJ ... 196..521C . doi : 10.1086 / 153432 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Aikman, Christopher |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Aikman, CLC |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ottawa |