Schelte J. Bus
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Apollo asteroid
The Apollo asteroids are a group of near-Earth asteroids named after 1862 Apollo, the first asteroid of this group to be discovered by Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth...
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3122 Florence
3122 Florence is an Amor asteroid discovered on March 2, 1981 by S. J. Bus at Siding Spring. It is classified as a near-Earth asteroid and a potentially hazardous asteroid....
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Amor asteroid
The Amor asteroids are a group of near-Earth asteroids named after the asteroid 1221 Amor. They approach the orbit of the Earth from beyond, but do not cross it. Most Amors do cross the orbit of Mars...
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3240 Laocoon
3240 Laocoon is a Jupiter Trojan discovered on November 7, 1978 by S. J. Bus at Palomar.- External links :*...
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Trojan asteroid
The Jupiter Trojans, commonly called Trojans or Trojan asteroids, are a large group of objects that share the orbit of the planet Jupiter around the Sun. Relative to Jupiter, each Trojan librates around one of the planet's two Lagrangian points of stability, and , that respectively lie 60° ahead...
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Schelte John "Bobby" Bus (born 1956) is an Associate Astronomer at the University of Hawaii
University of Hawaii
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Institute for Astronomy
Institute for Astronomy
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and Support Astronomer at NASA
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
's Infrared Telescope Facility
Infrared Telescope Facility
The NASA Infrared Telescope Facility is a telescope optimized for use in infrared astronomy and located at the Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawai'i. It was first built to support the Voyager missions and is now the USA national facility for infrared astronomy, providing continued support to...
IRTF. He received his B.S. from Caltech in 1979, and was awarded his Ph.D from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
in 1999.
Bus has been an active astronomer for many years. He discovered periodic comet
Comet
A comet is an icy small Solar System body that, when close enough to the Sun, displays a visible coma and sometimes also a tail. These phenomena are both due to the effects of solar radiation and the solar wind upon the nucleus of the comet...
87P/Bus
87P/Bus
Comet 87P/Bus was discovered by Schelte J. Bus in 1981 on a plate taken with the 1.2m UK Schmidt telescope at Siding Spring, Australia. The discovery was announced in IAU Circular 3578 on March 4, 1981. The comet's orbit takes it around the Sun every 6.51 years.- References :*...
in 1981. In addition, Bus has discovered or co-discovered over a thousand 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...
s, including an Apollo asteroid
Apollo asteroid
The Apollo asteroids are a group of near-Earth asteroids named after 1862 Apollo, the first asteroid of this group to be discovered by Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth...
, 2135 Aristaeus
2135 Aristaeus
2135 Aristaeus is an Apollo asteroid discovered on April 17, 1977 by E. F. Helin and S. J. Bus at Palomar Observatory. It is named for the son of Apollo and the nymph Cyrene.- External links :*...
, which will come within 5 Gm (3 million mi, 13 Earth-Moon distances) of the Earth on 30 March 2147; an Amor asteroid
Amor asteroid
The Amor asteroids are a group of near-Earth asteroids named after the asteroid 1221 Amor. They approach the orbit of the Earth from beyond, but do not cross it. Most Amors do cross the orbit of Mars...
; and more than 40 Trojan asteroid
Trojan asteroid
The Jupiter Trojans, commonly called Trojans or Trojan asteroids, are a large group of objects that share the orbit of the planet Jupiter around the Sun. Relative to Jupiter, each Trojan librates around one of the planet's two Lagrangian points of stability, and , that respectively lie 60° ahead...
s. The first of these was 3240 Laocoon
3240 Laocoon
3240 Laocoon is a Jupiter Trojan discovered on November 7, 1978 by S. J. Bus at Palomar.- External links :*...
, which he co-discovered 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...
. Bus was also the discoverer of asteroids 5020 Asimov
5020 Asimov
5020 Asimov is an asteroid discovered March 2, 1981 by Schelte J. Bus, who also discovered 4923 Clarke on the same day. It is named after Isaac Asimov, the prolific American science fiction author. On average, the asteroid has an apparent magnitude of 9.4....
and 4923 Clarke
4923 Clarke
4923 Clarke is an asteroid. It was discovered on March 2, 1981 by Schelte J. Bus who also discovered 5020 Asimov on the same day. It orbits within the main asteroid belt....
, named after two of the three most distinguished Science Fiction
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
writers of all time.
Asteroid 3254 Bus
3254 Bus
3254 Bus is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on October 17, 1982 by Bowell, E. at Flagstaff . It is named in honour of astronomer Schelte J. Bus.- External links :...
, which was discovered in 1982 by Edward L. G. Bowell
Edward L. G. Bowell
Edward L. G. Bowell , known as "Ted", is an American astronomer. Bowell was educated at Emanuel School London, University College, London, and the Université de Paris....
, was named in his honor.
With MIT's Richard P. Binzel
Richard P. Binzel
Richard "Rick" P. Binzel is a Professor of Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the inventor of the Torino Scale, a method for categorizing the impact hazard associated with near-Earth objects such as asteroids and comets.Binzel was awarded the H. C. Urey Prize...
, he further added to the knowledge about main-belt asteroids in a lightwave survey published in 2003. This project was known as Small Main-belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey, Phase II or SMASSII, which built on a previous survey of the main-belt asteroids. The visible-wavelength (0.435-0.925 micrometre) spectra data was gathered between August 1993 and March 1999.
During his studies, he worked under the supervision of Eugene Shoemaker
Eugene Merle Shoemaker
Eugene Merle Shoemaker , American geologist, was one of the founders of the fields of planetary science....
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