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The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, part of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has announced the seven winners of the 2002 Edgar Wilson Award. The award is for the discovery of comets by amateurs during the calendar year ending June 10 and was set aside as part of the will bequeathed by the late businessman Edgar Wilson of Lexington, Kentucky. The following amateur discoverers will receive plaques and a cash award, Vance Avery Petriew of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, (comet P/2001 Q2), Kaoru Ikeya of Mori, Shuchi, Shizuoka, Japan, and Daqing Zhang, Kaifeng, Henan province, China, (comet C/2002 C1), Douglas Snyder of Palominas, Arizona, and Shigeki Murakami of Matsunoyama, Niigata, Japan, (comet C/2002 E2), Syogo Utsunomiya of Minami-Oguni, Aso, Kumamoto, Japan (C/2002 F1), William Kwong Yu Yeung of Benson, Arizona (comet P/2002 BV). Amateur astronomers make a major contribution to the discovery of asteroids and comets. This is the fourth consecutive year the Edgar Wilson Awards have been given.
More info: Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics
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