Harry Edwin Wood

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Asteroids discovered: 12
715 Transvaalia April 22, 1911
758 Mancunia May 18, 1912
790 Pretoria January 16, 1912
982 Franklina May 21, 1922
1032 Pafuri May 30, 1924
1096 Reunerta July 21, 1928
1241 Dysona March 4, 1932
1305 Pongola July 19, 1928
1595 Tanga [1] June 19, 1930
1663 van den Bos August 4, 1926
2193 Jackson May 18, 1926
3300 McGlasson July 10, 1928
  1.   with Cyril V. Jackson

Harry Edwin Wood (February 3, 1881–February 27, 1946) was a South African astronomer.

Born in Manchester, England, in 1906 he was appointed Chief Assistant at the Transvaal Meteorological Observatory, which soon acquired telescopes and became known as the Union Observatory. He served as its director from 1928 to 1941, succeeding Robert Innes.

He married but had no children.

He served as president of the Astronomical Society of South Africa from 1929 to 1930.

Wood discovered a number of asteroids.

The asteroid 1660 Wood is named after him.

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