Gordon J. Garradd
{{Short description|Australian astronomer and photographer}}
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|+ Minor planets discovered: 31 | ||
| 6027 Waratah | 23 September 1993 | {{WGSBNB|2|7|7}} |
| {{mpl|(6874) 1994 JO|1}} | 9 May 1994 | {{MPC|6874}} |
| {{mpl|(8201) 1994 AH|2}} | 5 January 1994 | {{MPC|8201}} |
| {{mp|(10150) 1994 PN}} | 7 August 1994 | {{MPC|10150}} |
| {{mp|(10180) 1996 EE|2}} | 15 March 1996 | {{MPC|10180}} |
| {{mp|(10578) 1995 LH}} | 5 June 1995 | {{MPC|10578}} |
| {{mp|(10824) 1993 SW|3}} | 24 September 1993 | {{MPC|10824}} |
| {{mp|(14916) 1993 VV|7}} | 10 November 1993 | {{MPC|14916}} |
| {{mp|(14921) 1994 QA}} | 16 August 1994 | {{MPC|14921}} |
| {{mp|(23621) 1996 PA}} | 5 August 1996 | {{MPC|23621}} |
| {{mp|(24814) 1994 VW|1}} | 10 November 1994 | {{MPC|24814}} |
| {{mp|(26895) 1995 MC}} | 23 June 1995 | {{MPC|26895}} |
| {{mp|(30956) 1994 QP}} | 27 August 1994 | {{MPC|30956}} |
| {{mp|(37651) 1994 GX}} | 3 April 1994 | {{MPC|37651}} |
| {{mp|(55820) 1995 FW}} | 25 March 1995 | {{MPC|55820}} |
| {{mp|(55843) 1996 PD|1}} | 9 August 1996 | {{MPC|55843}} |
| 61342 Lovejoy | 3 August 2000 | {{MPC|61342}} |
| {{mp|(65757) 1994 FV}} | 21 March 1994 | {{MPC|65757}} |
| {{mp|(69350) 1993 YP}} | 17 December 1993 | {{MPC|69350}} |
| {{mp|(69357) 1994 FU}} | 21 March 1994 | {{MPC|69357}} |
| {{mp|(96298) 1996 RE|26}} | 9 September 1996 | {{MPC|96298}} |
| {{mp|(100210) 1994 LD|1}} | 15 June 1994 | {{MPC|100210}} |
| {{mp|(100211) 1994 PF|1}} | 7 August 1994 | {{MPC|100211}} |
| {{mp|(100244) 1994 QB}} | 16 August 1994 | {{MPC|100244}} |
| {{mp|(102530) 1999 UF|4}} | 30 October 1999 | {{MPC|102530}} |
| {{mp|(123302) 2000 UW|112}} | 19 October 2000 | {{MPC|123302}} |
| {{mp|(162037) 1996 BW|3}} | 26 January 1996 | {{MPC|162037}} |
| {{mp|(178680) 2000 RB|9}} | 2 September 2000 | {{MPC|178680}} |
| {{mp|(228215) 1996 DD|2}} | 26 February 1996 | {{MPC|228215}} |
| {{mp|(412983) 1996 FO|3}} | 24 March 1996 | {{MPC|412983}} |
Gordon John Garradd (born 1959) is an Australian amateur astronomer and photographer from Loomberah, New South Wales. He has discovered numerous asteroids and comets, including the hyperbolic comet C/2009 P1, and four novae in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The asteroid and Mars-crosser, 5066 Garradd, was named in his honour.
File:Comet-Garradd-Aug-2011.jpg (Garradd)]]
He has worked for a number of astronomical institutions in the US and Australia, most recently at Siding Spring Observatory on the Siding Spring Survey, part of the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey for near-Earth objects (2002–2011). {{as of|2016}}, the Minor Planet Center credits him with the discovery of 31 minor planets (see table). There are 16 comets and an asteroid that bear his name. His cometary discoveries include 186P/Garradd (comet Garradd 1), a Jupiter-family comet, and 259P/Garradd (comet Garradd 4), an Encke-type comet.
Garradd was born in Australia and lived his early life in Sydney, Canberra, Oberon, and Tamworth. Astronomy has been an interest since his childhood, and he has built many telescopes himself, starting with a 20 cm (8") f/7 Newtonian while still in high school, graduating to making mirrors up to 46 cm (18″) diameter and mounts up to the fork mount for the 46 cm f/5.4 Newtonian, and German equatorial mounted 25 cm (10") f/4.1 that he used for observing near-Earth asteroids and comets.
His initial profession was as an accountant, but he left that in 1984 to pursue astronomy and photography full-time. He lives with his wife Hether, off the power grid, using solar and wind power. He is a photographer, mountain bike rider, and solar- and wind-power enthusiast.
References
{{reflist
|refs=
|title = Minor Planet Discoverers (by number)
|work = Minor Planet Center
|url = http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/MPDiscsNum.html
|date = 23 May 2016
|accessdate = 17 June 2016}}
|last1=Liller|first1=William
|title=The Cambridge guide to astronomical discovery
|date=1992
|publisher=Cambridge University Press
|location=Cambridge
|isbn=9780521418393
|page=119
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=khtT0QAXI9QC&pg=PA119
|accessdate=14 January 2015}}
|title = Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (5066) Garradd
|last = Schmadel | first = Lutz D.
|publisher = Springer Berlin Heidelberg
|page = 436
|date = 2007
|isbn = 978-3-540-00238-3
|doi = 10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_4929 |chapter = (5066) Garradd }}
|title = JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 186P/Garradd
|url =https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?des=186P
|publisher = Jet Propulsion Laboratory
|accessdate = 17 June 2016}}
|title = JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 259P/Garradd
|url = https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?des=259P
|publisher = Jet Propulsion Laboratory
|accessdate = 17 June 2016}}
|title=JPL Small-Body Database Browser
|url=https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=Garradd
|publisher=Jet Propulsion Laboratory
|accessdate=25 June 2014}}
|last1=Bauman
|first1=Joe
|title=Meet Comet Discoverer Gordon Garradd
|url=http://astronomy.blogs.deseretnews.com/2011/08/23/meet-comet-discoverer-gordon-garradd/
|website=Nightly News: Astronomy
|publisher=Deseret News
|accessdate=21 February 2015
|date=23 August 2011
|archive-date=21 February 2015
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150221151336/http://astronomy.blogs.deseretnews.com/2011/08/23/meet-comet-discoverer-gordon-garradd/
|url-status=dead
}}
|editor1-last=Haynes |editor1-first=Raymond
|title=Explorers of the southern sky: a history of Australian astronomy
|date=2000
|publisher=Cambridge University Press
|location=Cambridge, UK
|isbn=9780521365758
|page=129}}
}}
External links
- [http://gunagulla.com Garradd's web site]
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Category:20th-century Australian astronomers