David J. Asher
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| 9084 Achristou 9084 Achristou 9084 Achristou is an inner main belt asteroid discovered on February 3, 1995 by D. J. Asher at Siding Spring.-References:... |
February 3, 1995 |
| 10369 Sinden 10369 Sinden 10369 Sinden is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 8, 1995 by D. J. Asher at Siding Spring.- External links :*... |
February 8, 1995 |
| 12395 Richnelson 12395 Richnelson 12395 Richnelson is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on February 8, 1995 by D. J. Asher at Siding Spring.- External links :*... |
February 8, 1995 |
| 15834 McBride 15834 McBride 15834 McBride is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 4, 1995 by D. J. Asher at Siding Spring.- External links :*... |
February 4, 1995 |
| 16693 Moseley 16693 Moseley 16693 Moseley is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 26, 1994 by D. J. Asher at Siding Spring.- External links :*... |
December 26, 1994 |
| 22403 Manjitludher 22403 Manjitludher 22403 Manjitludher is a main-belt asteroid discovered on June 5, 1995 by D. J. Asher at Siding Spring.- External links :*... |
June 5, 1995 |
| 26891 Johnbutler 26891 Johnbutler 26891 Johnbutler is an inner main-belt asteroid discovered on February 7, 1995 by D. J. Asher at Siding Spring.- External links :*... |
February 7, 1995 |
| 37678 McClure 37678 McClure 37678 McClure is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 3, 1995 by D. J. Asher at Siding Spring.- External links :*... |
February 3, 1995 |
| 42531 McKenna 42531 McKenna 42531 McKenna is a Mars-crossing asteroid discovered on June 5, 1995 by D. J. Asher at Siding Spring.- External links :*... |
June 5, 1995 |
| February 7, 1995 |
David J. Asher (born 1966, Edinburgh
Edinburgh
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) is a British astronomer, who works at the Armagh Observatory
Armagh Observatory
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(IAU code 981) in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
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.
He is known for the meteor
METEOR
METEOR is a metric for the evaluation of machine translation output. The metric is based on the harmonic mean of unigram precision and recall, with recall weighted higher than precision...
research that he conducts with Robert McNaught. In 1999 and 2000, they accurately gauged when the Leonids
Leonids
The Leonids is a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Tempel-Tuttle. The Leonids get their name from the location of their radiant in the constellation Leo: the meteors appear to radiate from that point in the sky. They tend to peak in November.Earth moves through the meteoroid...
meteor shower would peak, while underestimating the peak intensities.
He has also acted in a Hollywood movie. His chief interests include orbits and dynamics of comets and meteors.
Asher has done his doctorate from Oxford and he has also studied mathematics at Cambridge.