Robert H. McNaught

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Asteroids discovered: 472
3904 Honda	22 February 1988
4093 Bennett	7 November 1986
4128 UKSTU	28 January 1988
4129 Richelen	22 February 1988
4220 Flood	22 February 1988
4456 Mawson	27 July 1989
4499 Davidallen	4 January 1989
4504 Jenkinson	21 December 1989
4638 Estens	2 March 1989
4667 Robbiesh	4 November 1986
4678 Ninian	24 September 1990
4679 Sybil	9 October 1990
4699 Sootan	4 November 1986
4704 Sheena	28 January 1988
4710 Wade	4 January 1989
4713 Steel	26 August 1989
(4953) 1990 MU	23 June 1990
4956 Noymer	12 November 1990
4974 Elford	14 June 1990
5007 Keay	20 October 1990
5061 McIntosh	22 February 1988
5066 Garradd	22 June 1990
5068 Cragg	9 October 1990
5133 Phillipadams	12 August 1990
5136 Baggaley	20 October 1990
(5189) 1990 UQ	20 October 1990
5277 Brisbane	22 February 1988
5329 Decaro	21 December 1989
5335 Damocles	18 February 1991
5378 Ellyett	9 April 1991
5380 Sprigg	7 May 1991
5382 McKay	8 May 1991
5441 Andymurray	8 May 1991
5470 Kurtlindstrom	28 January 1988
5475 Hanskennedy	26 August 1989
(5558) 1989 WL₂	24 November 1989
(5604) 1992 FE	26 March 1992
(5625) 1991 AO₂	7 January 1991
(5627) 1991 MA	16 June 1991
(5645) 1990 SP	20 September 1990
(5680) 1989 YZ₁	30 December 1989
5682 Beresford	9 October 1990
5691 Fredwatson	26 March 1992
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5782 Akirafujiwara	7 January 1991
5786 Talos	3 September 1991
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5914 Kathywhaler	20 November 1990
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6130 Hutton	24 September 1989
6194 Denali	12 October 1990
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6411 Tamaga	8 October 1993
(6454) 1991 UG₁	29 October 1991
(6455) 1992 HE	25 April 1992
(6461) 1993 VB₅	4 November 1993
6523 Clube	1 October 1991
6564 Asher	25 January 1992
6708 Bobbievaile	4 January 1989
6870 Pauldavies	28 July 1992
6906 Johnmills	19 November 1990
6907 Harryford	19 November 1990
6916 Lewispearce	27 July 1992
(6960) 1989 AL₅	4 January 1989
7096 Napier	3 November 1992
7120 Davidgavine	4 January 1989
7170 Livesey	30 June 1987
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(7247) 1991 TD₁	12 October 1991
7345 Happer	28 July 1992
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7604 Kridsadaporn	31 August 1995
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8028 Joeengle	30 August 1991
8030 Williamknight	29 September 1991
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8113 Matsue^[1]	21 April 1996
8115 Sakabe^[2]	24 April 1996
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8218 Hosty	8 May 1996
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8515 Corvan	4 September 1991
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9349 Lucas	30 September 1991
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9594 Garstang	4 September 1991
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9984 Gregbryant^[4]	18 April 1996
9985 Akiko^[1]	12 May 1996
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10188 Yasuoyoneda^[2]	14 May 1996
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12446 Juliabryant^[4]	15 August 1996
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12819 Susumutakahasi^[2]	12 May 1996
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13176 Kobedaitenken^[1]	21 April 1996
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15368 Katsuji^[2]	14 May 1996
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17503 Celestechild	26 March 1992
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17640 Mount Stromlo^[4]	15 August 1996
18376 Quirk	30 September 1991
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18412 Kruszelnicki	13 June 1993
18413 Adamspencer	13 June 1993
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(19986) 1990 KD	20 May 1990
20002 Tillysmith	10 March 1991
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20043 Ellenmacarthur	2 March 1993
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21073 Darksky	4 September 1991
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21262 Kanba^[1]	24 April 1996
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(46544) 1988 QO	19 August 1988
46568 Stevenlee	30 September 1991
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¹ with Hiroshi Abe (astronomer) ² with Yasukazu Ikari ³ with Takuo Kojima ⁴ with Jack B. Child

Robert H. McNaught (born in Scotland in 1956) is a Scottish-Australian astronomer at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the Australian National University. He has collaborated with David J. Asher of the Armagh Observatory.

He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids and comets, and participates in the Siding Spring Survey (SSS) using the ANU's Uppsala Southern Schmidt Telescope.^[1] He discovered the Great Comet C/2006 P1 on 7 August 2006, the brightest comet in several decades, which became easily visible to the naked eye for observers in the Southern Hemisphere.^[2] The SSS is the only active Near Earth Object survey in the Southern Hemisphere.

Comet Discoveries

McNaught has discovered 44 long-period comets:

C/1987 U3 (a. k. a. 1987 XXXII, 1987b₁)
C/2005 E2
C/2005 L2
C/2005 L3
C/2005 S4
C/2006 B1
C/2006 E1
C/2006 K1
C/2006 K3
C/2006 L2
C/2006 P1 (Great Comet of 2007)
C/2006 Q1
C/2007 K6
C/2007 M1
C/2007 P1
C/2007 T1
C/2007 Y2
C/2008 A1
C/2008 J4
C/2009 F2
C/2009 F4
C/2009 F5
C/2009 K5
C/2009 R1
C/2009 T1
C/2010 J2
C/2011 C1
C/2011 G1
C/2011 L2
C/2011 L3
C/2011 N2
C/2011 Q2
C/2011 R1
C/2012 C1
C/2012 H2
C/2012 K6
C/2012 T4
C/2012 Y3
C/2013 A1
C/2013 E1
C/2013 F3
C/2013 G2
C/2013 G7
C/2013 J3
C/2013 O3

McNaught has discovered 26 short-period comets:

191P/McNaught
220P/McNaught
254P/McNaught
260P/McNaught
278P/McNaught
P/2004 R1 (McNaught)
P/2005 J1 (McNaught)
P/2005 L1 (McNaught)
P/2005 Y2 (McNaught)
P/2006 G1 (McNaught)
P/2006 H1 (McNaught)
P/2007 H1 (McNaught)
P/2008 J3 (McNaught)
P/2008 O2 (McNaught)
P/2008 Y3 (McNaught)
P/2009 Q5 (McNaught)
P/2009 S2 (McNaught)
P/2009 U4 (McNaught)
P/2010 J5 (McNaught)
P/2011 L1 (McNaught)
P/2011 P1 (McNaught)
P/2011 Q3 (McNaught)
P/2012 O1 (McNaught)
P/2012 O2 (McNaught)
P/2012 O3 (McNaught)
P/2013 J2 (McNaught)

McNaught is the co-discoverer of the following comets:

P/Catalina-McNaught (a.k.a. P/2008 S1, 2008 JK)
P/McNaught-Hartley (a.k.a. P/1994 N2, 1994 XXXI, 1994n)
Comet McNaught-Hartley (a.k.a. C/1999 T1)
Comets McNaught-Hughes:
- C/1990 M1 (a.k.a. 1991 III, 1990g)
- 130P/McNaught-Hughes (a.k.a. 1991 IX, 1991y)
Comets McNaught-Russell:
- C/1991 C3 (a.k.a. 1990 XIX, 1991g)
- C/1991 Q1 (a.k.a. 1992 XI, 1991v)
- C/1991 R1 (a.k.a. 1990 XXII, 1991w)
- C/1993 Y1 (a.k.a. 1994 XI, 1993v)
- 262P/McNaught-Russell (a.k.a. 1994 XXIV, 1994u)
Comet McNaught-Tritton (a.k.a. C/1978 G2, 1978 XXVII)
Comet McNaught-Watson (a.k.a. C/1999 S2)

In total, McNaught has discovered 82 comets.

Other work

McNaught has been in charge of the University of Aston's satellite-tracking camera at Herstmonceux and more recently at Siding Spring. In his spare time he successfully conducts patrols for novae, identifies images of prenovae and unusual variable stars on survey plates, measures their positions, makes astrometric observations of comets and minor planets and photometric observations of comets and novae. He also carries out extensive observational and computational work on meteors, as well as on occultations by minor planets.

The asteroid 3173 McNaught was named after McNaught by its discoverer, following a suggestion by David A. J. Seargent.

Funding issues

On 11 July 2012 it was announced that McNaught's funding from NASA was to be cut and he would be temporarily funded from the ANU. In late 2012, the ANU advised that it could no longer support the program and that funds would not be available from January 2013.^[3]

References

↑ "Earth-threatening space rocks hunted by ANU". Media releases (Australian National University). 6 April 2004. Retrieved 21 January 2007.
↑ Kronk, Gary. "C/2007 P1 (McNaught)". Cometography. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
↑ Vlahos, Perry (20 December 2012). "Who's on night watch?". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 24 April 2013.

External links

Siding Spring Survey

Comets

Features	Nucleus Coma Tails Antitail Dust trail Dust

Types	Names Antimatter Encke-types Exocomets Extinct Great Halley-types Interstellar Lost Main-belt Sungrazing (Kreutz Sungrazers)

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Space missions	Comet Hopper CONTOUR CRAF Deep Impact/EPOXI Deep Space 1 Giotto Hayabusa Mk2 ICE Marco Polo MarcoPolo-R Rosetta Philae Sakigake Stardust/NeXT Suisei Ulysses Vega program Vega 1 Vega 2 Vesta

Latest	C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy) C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) P/2013 P5 (PANSTARRS) C/2012 S1 (ISON) C/2012 K1 (PANSTARRS) C/2012 F6 (Lemmon) C/2012 E2 (SWAN) 276P/Vorobjov 2P/Encke

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Periodic
comets

Number	1P/Halley 2P/Encke 3D/Biela 4P/Faye 5D/Brorsen 6P/d'Arrest 7P/Pons–Winnecke 8P/Tuttle 9P/Tempel 10P/Tempel 11P/Tempel–Swift–LINEAR 12P/Pons–Brooks 13P/Olbers 14P/Wolf 15P/Finlay 16P/Brooks 17P/Holmes 18D/Perrine–Mrkos 19P/Borrelly 20D/Westphal 21P/Giacobini–Zinner 22P/Kopff 23P/Brorsen–Metcalf 24P/Schaumasse 25D/Neujmin 26P/Grigg–Skjellerup 27P/Crommelin 28P/Neujmin 29P/Schwassmann–Wachmann 30P/Reinmuth 31P/Schwassmann–Wachmann 32P/Comas Solá 33P/Daniel 34D/Gale 35P/Herschel–Rigollet 36P/Whipple 37P/Forbes 38P/Stephan–Oterma 39P/Oterma 40P/Väisälä 41P/Tuttle–Giacobini–Kresák 42P/Neujmin 43P/Wolf–Harrington 44P/Reinmuth 45P/Honda–Mrkos–Pajdušáková 46P/Wirtanen 47P/Ashbrook–Jackson 48P/Johnson 49P/Arend–Rigaux 50P/Arend 51P/Harrington 52P/Harrington–Abell 53P/Van Biesbroeck 54P/de Vico–Swift–NEAT 55P/Tempel–Tuttle 56P/Slaughter–Burnham 57P/du Toit–Neujmin–Delporte 60P/Tsuchinshan 62P/Tsuchinshan 65P/Gunn 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko 68P/Klemola 69P/Taylor 71P/Clark 73P/Schwassmann–Wachmann 74P/Smirnova–Chernykh 75D/Kohoutek 77P/Longmore 78P/Gehrels 81P/Wild 82P/Gehrels 84P/Giclas 85P/Boethin 87P/Bus 88P/Howell 91P/Russell 94P/Russell 95P/Chiron 96P/Machholz 98P/Takamizawa 99P/Kowal 100P/Hartley 101P/Chernykh 102P/Shoemaker 103P/Hartley 105P/Singer Brewster 107P/Wilson–Harrington 109P/Swift–Tuttle 111P/Helin–Roman–Crockett 112P/Urata–Niijima 113P/Spitaler 114P/Wiseman–Skiff 115P/Maury 116P/Wild 117P/Helin–Roman–Alu 118P/Shoemaker–Levy 119P/Parker–Hartley 120P/Mueller 121P/Shoemaker–Holt 122P/de Vico 125P/Spacewatch 128P/Shoemaker–Holt 129P/Shoemaker–Levy 130P/McNaught–Hughes 132P/Helin–Roman–Alu 133P/Elst–Pizarro 136P/Mueller 138P/Shoemaker–Levy 139P/Väisälä–Oterma 143P/Kowal–Mrkos 144P/Kushida 147P/Kushida–Muramatsu 152P/Helin–Lawrence 153P/Ikeya–Zhang 157P/Tritton 158P/Kowal–LINEAR 159P/LONEOS 160P/LINEAR 161P/Hartley–IRAS 163P/NEAT 164P/Christensen 165P/LINEAR 166P/NEAT 167P/CINEOS 168P/Hergenrother 169P/NEAT 170P/Christensen 171P/Spahr 172P/Yeung 173P/Mueller 174P/Echeclus 176P/LINEAR 177P/Barnard 178P/Hug–Bell 206P/Barnard–Boattini 208P/McMillan 209P/LINEAR 238P/Read 246P/NEAT 255P/Levy 271P/van Houten–Lemmon 276P/Vorobjov 289P/Blanpain

None	D/1770 L1 D/1993 F2 P/1997 B1 P/2007 R5 P/2010 A2 P/2010 B2 P/2010 V1 P/2011 NO1 P/2013 P5

Non
periodic
comets

Before 1910	C/-43 K1 (Comet Caesar) X/1106 C1 C/1577 V1 (Great Comet of 1577) C/1652 Y1 C/1680 V1 (Kirsch's Comet) C/1702 H1 C/1729 P1 (Comet of 1729) C/1743 X1 C/1760 A1 C/1769 P1 C/1811 F1 (Great Comet of 1811) C/1823 Y1 (Great Comet of 1823) C/1843 D1 (Great March Comet of 1843) C/1847 T1 (Miss Mitchell's Comet) C/1858 L1 (Comet Donati) C/1861 G1 (Comet Thatcher) C/1861 J1 (Great Comet of 1861) X/1872 X1 C/1882 R1 (Great September Comet of 1882) C/1887 B1 (Great Southern Comet of 1887) C/1910 A1 (Great January Comet of 1910)

After 1910	C/1911 O1 (Brooks) C/1911 S3 (Beljawsky) C/1927 X1 (Skjellerup–Maristany) C/1948 V1 (Eclipse) C/1956 R1 (Arend–Roland) C/1961 R1 (Humason) C/1965 S1 (Ikeya-Seki) C/1969 Y1 (Bennett) C/1970 K1 (White–Ortiz–Bolelli) C/1973 E1 (Kohoutek) C/1975 V1 (West) C/1980 E1 (Bowell) C/1989 X1 (Austin) C/1989 Y1 (Skorichenko–George) C/1993 Y1 (McNaught–Russell) C/1995 O1 (Hale–Bopp) C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) C/1997 L1 (Zhu–Balam) C/1998 H1 (Stonehouse) C/1999 F1 (Catalina) C/1999 S4 (LINEAR) C/2000 U5 (LINEAR) C/2000 W1 (Utsunomiya-Jones) C/2001 Q4 (NEAT) C/2002 T7 (LINEAR) C/2004 Q2 (Machholz) C/2006 A1 (Pojmański) C/2006 M4 (SWAN) C/2006 P1 (McNaught) C/2007 F1 (LONEOS) C/2007 N3 (Lulin) C/2007 Q3 (Siding Spring) C/2007 W1 (Boattini) C/2009 F6 (Yi–SWAN) C/2009 R1 (McNaught) C/2010 X1 (Elenin) C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy) C/2012 E2 (SWAN) C/2012 F6 (Lemmon) C/2012 K1 (PANSTARRS) C/2012 S1 (ISON) C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) P/2013 P5 (PANSTARRS) C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy)

After 1910 (abc's)	Arend–Roland Austin Beljawsky Bennett Boattini Bowell Brooks Catalina Eclipse Elenin Hale-Bopp Humason Hyakutake Ikeya-Seki ISON Kohoutek Lemmon LINEAR C/1999 S4 C/2000 U5 C/2002 T7 LONEOS Lovejoy C/2011 W3 C/2013 R1 Lulin Machholz McNaught C/2006 P1 C/2009 R1 McNaught–Russell NEAT Pan-STARRS C/2011 L4 C/2012 K1 P/2013 P5 Pojmański Siding Spring C/2007 Q3 C/2013 A1 Skjellerup–Maristany Skorichenko–George Stonehouse SWAN C/2006 M4 C/2012 E2 Utsunomiya–Jones West White–Ortiz–Bolelli Yi–SWAN Zhu–Balam

Misc

Asteroid comets	2060 Chiron (95P/Chiron) 7968 Elst–Pizarro (133P/Elst–Pizarro) 4015 Wilson–Harrington (107P/Wilson-Harrington) 60558 Echeclus (174P/Echeclus) 118401 LINEAR (176P/LINEAR, prev 1999 RE70)

Lost comets	11P/Tempel–Swift–LINEAR 15P/Finlay 17P/Holmes 27P/Crommelin 54P/de Vico–Swift–NEAT 69P/Taylor 73P/Schwassmann–Wachmann 113P/Spitaler 107P/Wilson–Harrington 177P/Barnard 206P/Barnard–Boattini D/1770 L1 (Lexell) 3D/Biela 5D/Brorsen 18D/Perrine–Mrkos 20D/Westphal 25D/Neujmin 34D/Gale

Unknown orbits	X/1106 C1 X/1872 X1

Persondata
Name	McNaught, Robert H.
Alternative names
Short description	British astronomer
Date of birth	1956
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

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