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Roger Dymock |
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Director, Asteroids and Remote Planets Section
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My astronomical 'career' began in the Spring of 1995 at the Hampshire Astronomical Group's Clanfield observatory. The first asteroid observed, through the Group's 5" Cooke Refractor, was 4 Vesta. There was much interest in asteroids at this time mostly related to the chances of one colliding with the Earth so I decided to concentrate on those Minor Planets.
By the end of 2003 I had covered many aspects of asteroid observing and imaging including; finding asteroids, visual magnitude and position estimates, occultations, CCD astrometry and CCD lightcurve photometry. A Minor Planet Center observatory code, 940, was obtained in 2000.
From 2003 to 2006 I developed an on-line database, Project Quixote, of visual observations for the Variable Star Section.
I became the Asteroid and Remote Planets Section Near Earth Object co-ordinator in 2002 and was appointed Section Director in 2005. |
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