Greg Aldering

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List of discovered asteroids : 4
(9004) Peekaydee October 22, 1982
(17398) 1982 UR 2 October 20, 1982
(19951) 1982 UW 2 October 20, 1982
(100001) 1982 UC 3 October 20, 1982

Gregory Scott Aldering (* 1962 ) or Greg Aldering for short is an American astronomer and asteroid discoverer.

He is a member of the Supernova Cosmology Project and discovered a total of four asteroids at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona in 1982 . He is currently working at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory of the University of California on the determination of cosmological parameters using supernovae .

The asteroid (26533) Aldering was named after him on July 22, 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Minor Planet Discoverers