Brian G. W. Manning

Brian G. W. Manning (born 1926) is an English astronomer who has discovered several asteroids. He was born in 1926 in Birmingham. He constructed his first mirror from a piece of glass that a World War II bomb blew out of the roof of the factory where his father worked. He began as an engineering draughtsman but later became a metrologist at the University of Birmingham. In the late 1950s, he constructed an interference-controlled ruling machine in a home workshop, which was able to rule high-quality 3 by 2 inch gratings.^[1]

In 1990, he received the H. E. Dall prize of the BAA.^[1]

List of Asteroids discovered by Manning

4751 Alicemanning discovered January 17, 1991
4506 Hendrie discovered March 24, 1990
7239 Mobberley discovered October 4, 1989
7465 Munkanber discovered October 31, 1989
7519 Paulcook discovered October 31, 1989
7573 Basfifty discovered November 4, 1989
6156 Dall discovered January 12, 1991
6191 Eades discovered November 22, 1989
8166 Buczynski discovered January 12, 1991
8545 McGee discovered January 2, 1994
8914 Nickjames discovered December 25, 1995
10381 Malinsmith discovered September 3, 1996
10515 Old Joe discovered October 31, 1989
10538 Torode discovered November 11, 1991
15347 discovered October 26, 1994
24728 Scagell discovered November 11, 1991
52633 discovered November 30, 1997
69273 discovered October 4, 1989
100690 discovered December 25, 1997

References

^ ^a ^b William Liller (1992). The Cambridge Guide to Astronomical Discovery. Cambridge University Press. p. 121. ISBN 0521418399.

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List of Asteroids discovered by Manning

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