R. Scott Dunbar had a hand in the discovery of eight asteroid

Asteroid

Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...

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Dunbar discovered the comet 3551 Verenia

3551 Verenia

3551 Verenia is an Amor asteroid and a Mars crosser discovered in 1983 by R. Scott Dunbar. Although Verenia passed within 40 Gm of the Earth in the 20th century, it will never do so in the 21st...

 by himself. He was a co-discoverer with Eleanor F. Helin

Eleanor F. Helin

Eleanor Francis "Glo" Helin was an American astronomer. She was principal investigator of the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking program of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Some sources give her name as Eleanor Kay Helin...

 six times: 3360 Syrinx, (6065) 1987 OC

(6065) 1987 OC

1987 OC is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered by Eleanor F. Helin and R. Scott Dunbar at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, on July 27, 1987.-External links:*...

, 6435 Daveross

6435 Daveross

6435 Daveross is an inner main-belt asteroid discovered on February 24, 1984 by E. F. Helin and R. S. Dunbar at Palomar.- External links :...

, (7163) 1984 DB, 1983 LB, and 1983 LC. Dunbar also co-discovered 3362 Khufu

3362 Khufu

]3362 Khufu is a near-Earth asteroid. It was discovered by R. Scott Dunbar and Maria A. Barucci at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, on August 30, 1984. Its provisional designation was 1984 QA. It is named after Khufu, an ancient Egyptian pharaoh.Khufu crosses the orbits...

 with Maria A. Barucci. 3718 Dunbar

3718 Dunbar

3718 Dunbar is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 7, 1978 by Helin, E. F. and Bus, S. J. at Palomar.- External links :*...

, discovered by E. F. Helin and Schelte J. Bus

Schelte J. Bus

Schelte John "Bobby" Bus is an Associate Astronomer at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy and Support Astronomer at NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility IRTF. He received his B.S. from Caltech in 1979, and was awarded his Ph.D from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999.Bus...

, is named after him.

Dunbar and Helin also claimed the discovery of comet 1980 p, which turned out not to exist. It was a ghost image of Alpha Leonis

Alpha Leonis

Alpha Leonis is an American indie rock band from Portland, Oregon carried on Planet Ceres Enterprises. The band began as the solo project of Atticus Reynard, who released the album "Shadows of Men" on January 5, 2010.-Members:Current...

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