Stephen P. Laurie

Stephen P. Laurie is a British amateur astronomer. He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids and comets,[1] although his profession is that of an actuary.[2] He has also worked on searches for dwarf stars[3] and discovered a supernova (SN 1997bq in NGC 3147) in 1997.[4][2]

Laurie has named five asteroids he discovered from the Church Stretton area — 7603 Salopia (named after Shropshire,)[5] 9421 Violilla, 9428 Angelalouise, 10216 Popastro and 11626 Church Stretton[6] — both discovered at observatory 966 Church Stretton. Another observatory he uses is at Ragdon (J17), which is close by to Church Stretton. Laurie lives and works in the Church Stretton area.[2]

References

  1. ^ Astronomical Data System [1]
  2. ^ a b c Independent newspaper A small speck in the sky; but a giant find for insurance man (1997)
  3. ^ "Meeting the Cool Neighbors. IV. 2MASS 1835+32, a Newly Discovered M8.5 Dwarf within 6 Parsecs of the Sun" by I. Neill Reid, K. L. Cruz, Stephen P. Laurie, James Liebert, Conard C. Dahn, Hugh C. Harris, Harry H. Guetter, Ronald C. Stone , Blaise Canzian, Christian B. Luginbuhl5, Stephen E. Levine5, Alice K. B. Monet and David G. Monet The Astronomical Journal Volume 125 Number 1p. 354–358 doi: 10.1086/344946 [2]
  4. ^ Hermes newsletter (May 1997) p 2
  5. ^ JPL Small-Body Database Browser on 7603 Salopia
  6. ^ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser". NASA. http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=11626. Retrieved 2008-05-24.