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Asteroids discovered: 72
| 1116 Catriona |
April 5, 1929 |
| 1186 Turnera |
August 1, 1929 |
| 1193 Africa |
April 24, 1931 |
| 1194 Aletta |
May 13, 1931 |
| 1195 Orangia |
May 24, 1931 |
| 1196 Sheba |
May 21, 1931 |
| 1197 Rhodesia |
June 9, 1931 |
| 1242 Zambesia |
April 28, 1932 |
| 1243 Pamela |
May 7, 1932 |
| 1244 Deira |
May 25, 1932 |
| 1245 Calvinia |
May 26, 1932 |
| 1246 Chaka |
July 23, 1932 |
| 1248 Jugurtha |
September 1, 1932 |
| 1264 Letaba |
April 21, 1933 |
| 1268 Libya |
April 29, 1930 |
| 1278 Kenya |
June 15, 1933 |
| 1279 Uganda |
June 15, 1933 |
| 1282 Utopia |
August 17, 1933 |
| 1318 Nerina |
March 24, 1934 |
| 1319 Disa |
March 19, 1934 |
| 1320 Impala |
May 13, 1934 |
| 1321 Majuba |
May 7, 1934 |
| 1323 Tugela |
May 19, 1934 |
| 1324 Knysna |
June 15, 1934 |
| 1325 Inanda |
July 14, 1934 |
| 1326 Losaka |
July 14, 1934 |
| 1327 Namaqua |
September 7, 1934 |
| 1349 Bechuana |
June 13, 1934 |
| 1354 Botha |
April 3, 1935 |
| 1355 Magoeba |
April 30, 1935 |
| 1356 Nyanza |
May 3, 1935 |
| 1357 Khama |
July 2, 1935 |
| 1358 Gaika |
July 21, 1935 |
| 1359 Prieska |
July 22, 1935 |
| 1360 Tarka |
July 22, 1935 |
| 1362 Griqua |
July 31, 1935 |
| 1367 Nongoma |
July 3, 1934 |
| 1368 Numidia |
April 30, 1935 |
| 1393 Sofala |
May 25, 1936 |
| 1394 Algoa |
June 12, 1936 |
| 1396 Outeniqua |
August 9, 1936 |
| 1397 Umtata |
August 9, 1936 |
| 1427 Ruvuma |
May 16, 1937 |
| 1428 Mombasa |
July 5, 1937 |
| 1429 Pemba |
July 2, 1937 |
| 1430 Somalia |
July 5, 1937 |
| 1431 Luanda |
July 29, 1937 |
| 1432 Ethiopia |
August 1, 1937 |
| 1456 Saldanha |
July 2, 1937 |
| 1467 Mashona |
July 30, 1938 |
| 1468 Zomba |
July 23, 1938 |
| 1474 Beira |
August 20, 1935 |
| 1490 Limpopo |
June 14, 1936 |
| 1505 Koranna |
April 21, 1939 |
| 1506 Xosa |
May 15, 1939 |
| 1595 Tanga |
June 19, 1930 |
with H. E. Wood |
| 1634 Ndola |
August 19, 1935 |
| 1638 Ruanda |
May 3, 1935 |
| 1641 Tana |
July 25, 1935 |
| 1676 Kariba |
June 15, 1939 |
| 1712 Angola |
May 28, 1935 |
| 1784 Benguella |
June 30, 1935 |
| 1816 Liberia |
January 29, 1936 |
| 1817 Katanga |
June 20, 1939 |
| 1948 Kampala |
April 3, 1935 |
| 1949 Messina |
July 8, 1936 |
| 2066 Palala |
June 4, 1934 |
| 2825 Crosby |
September 19, 1938 |
| 2865 Laurel |
July 31, 1935 |
| 3768 Monroe |
September 5, 1937 |
| (5452) 1937 NN |
July 5, 1937 |
| (7102) 1936 NB |
July 12, 1936 |
Cyril Jackson (December 5, 1903 – February 1988) was a South African astronomer.
He was born in Ossett, Yorkshire in England, but his father emigrated to South Africa in 1911.
He worked at Union Observatory in Johannesburg from 1928 to 1947 (IAU code 078, previously known as Transvaal Observatory and later known as Republic Observatory). He served with South African forces in the second world war, and was mentioned in despatches. After the war he was director of the Yale-Columbia Southern Observatory (YCSO) station in Johannesburg (IAU code 077), which had been established by Yale University in the 1920s.[1] Columbia University subsequently collaborated in that venture and the operation became known as the Yale-Columbia Southern Observatory (YCSO, Inc. was formally created in 1962). Due to light pollution that observatory had to be shut down in 1951 and he supervised the move of its instrument, a 26-inch refracting telescope, to Mount Stromlo Observatory in Australia (IAU code 414). This Yale-Columbia telescope was given to the Australian National University in July 1963, and was destroyed in the January 18, 2003 firestorm that devastated Mount Stromlo.
Jackson worked at Mount Stromlo from 1957 to 1963. In 1963, Yale reopened its Columbia Southern Observatory at El Leoncito, Argentina (IAU code 808), and he served as its director there until 1966, when he retired.
He discovered a number of comets, including the periodic comets 47P/Ashbrook-Jackson and 58P/Jackson-Neujmin.
He also discovered a number of asteroids and minor planets in the earlier part of his career at Union Observatory.
[edit] References
- ^ The Yale Southern Observatory, Inc
