Robert T. A. Innes
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Robert Thorburn Ayton Innes (November 10, 1861 – March 13, 1933) was a Scottish-South African astronomer best known for discovering Proxima Centauri in 1915, and numerous binary stars. He was also the first astronomer to have seen the Great January Comet of 1910, on January 12. He was the founding director of a meteorological station, which he converted to an astronomical observatory and renamed to Union Observatory.
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The following features have been named for him:
- Innes crater on the Moon.
- The asteroid 1658 Innes.
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Oh my God! He was a big fat ugly man who was 45 and lived on his own in the middle of the ocean on a whale which looked like him.
