• David James Tholen (born 1955) is an American astronomer at the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Hawaiʻi. He holds a 1984 PhD from the University...
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    2018 AG37 (category Discoveries by David J. Tholen)
    announced in a press release in February 2021 by astronomers Scott Sheppard, David Tholen, and Chad Trujillo. The object was nicknamed "FarFarOut" to emphasize...
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  • 99942 Apophis (category Discoveries by David J. Tholen)
    approaches. Apophis was discovered on June 19, 2004, by Roy A. Tucker, David J. Tholen, and Fabrizio Bernardi at the Kitt Peak National Observatory. On December...
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    irregular moons as a detour. In collaboration with Chadwick Trujillo and David Tholen, Sheppard continued surveying around Jupiter from 2016 to 2018 using...
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  • 2018 VG18 (category Discoveries by David J. Tholen)
    and Pluto. It was discovered on 10 November 2018 by Scott Sheppard, David Tholen, and Chad Trujillo during their search for TNOs whose orbits might be...
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    Burnham, Robert; Levy, David H. (2000). Great Comets. Cambridge University Press. p. 191. ISBN 978-0-521-64600-0. Tholen, David J. (January 15, 1997)....
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  • period of 2.95 hours. It was later named after American astronomer David Tholen. Tholen is a Mars-crossing asteroid, crossing the orbit of Mars at 1.666 AU...
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    taxonomic systems such as the Tholen, SMASS and Bus–DeMeo classifications. In 1975, astronomers Clark R. Chapman, David Morrison, and Ben Zellner developed...
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    541132 Leleākūhonua (category Discoveries by David J. Tholen)
    October 2015 at the Mauna Kea Observatory (T09), by American astronomers David Tholen, Chad Trujillo and Scott Sheppard during their astronomical survey for...
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  • Teodorescu. He was involved together with colleagues Marco Micheli and David Tholen, with observations of the Mars-crosser asteroid 2007 WD5 during his stay...
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  • 2019 EU5 (category Discoveries by David J. Tholen)
    discovered on 5 March 2019, by American astronomers Scott Sheppard, David Tholen, and Chad Trujillo at Mauna Kea Observatories in Hawaii, and announced...
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    2020 FY30 (category Discoveries by David J. Tholen)
    was discovered 100 AU (15 billion km) from the Sun by Scott Sheppard, David Tholen, and Chad Trujillo on 24 March 2020. Announced on 14 February 2021, it...
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  • 2020 BE102 (category Discoveries by David J. Tholen)
    discovered on 24 January 2020, by American astronomers Scott Sheppard, David Tholen, and Chad Trujillo using the 8.2-meter Subaru Telescope of the Mauna...
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    number of other astronomers including Davide Farnocchia, Bill Gray, and David Tholen concluded that the comet was interstellar. On 24 September 2019 the IAU...
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    3847/1538-3881/aa6db5. S2CID 3502267. Sheppard, Scott S.; Trujillo, Chadwick; Tholen, David J. (July 2016). "Beyond the Kuiper Belt Edge: New High Perihelion Trans-Neptunian...
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    Tortola (redirect from Ter Tholen)
    Columbus named the island Santa Ana. Dutch colonists called it Ter Tholen, after Tholen, a coastal island that is part of the Netherlands. When the British...
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  • game developed by US-based indie developer Tendershoot (pseudonym of Jay Tholen) and indie development studio A Jolly Corpse, and published by Devolver...
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    (678191) 2017 OF69 (category Discoveries by David J. Tholen)
    diameter. It was first observed on 26 July 2017, by American astronomers David Tholen, Scott Sheppard, and Chad Trujillo at Mauna Kea Observatories in Hawaii...
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  • 2021 RR205 (category Discoveries by David J. Tholen)
    extreme trans-Neptunian object discovered by astronomers Scott Sheppard, David Tholen, and Chad Trujillo with the Subaru Telescope at Mauna Kea Observatory...
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  • JPL · 11605 11606 Almary 1995 UU6 Alfred and Mary Tholen, the parents of the discoverer, David Tholen, on the occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary...
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    2020 FA31 (category Discoveries by David J. Tholen)
    discovered 97.2 AU (14.54 billion km) from the Sun by Scott Sheppard, David Tholen, and Chad Trujillo on 24 March 2020. Announced on 14 February 2021, it...
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    2015 TH367 was first observed by Scott Sheppard, Chad Trujillo, and David Tholen on 13 October 2015 using the Subaru Telescope, a large reflecting telescope...
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  • 2021 DR15 (category Discoveries by David J. Tholen)
    discovered on 17 February 2021, by American astronomers Scott Sheppard, David Tholen, and Chad Trujillo using the 8.2-meter Subaru Telescope of the Mauna...
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    irregular and elongated, rather than spherical. In the early 1990s, David Tholen at the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Hawaii estimated...
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    David Clifford Jewitt (born 1958) is a British-American[citation needed] astronomer who studies the Solar System, especially its minor bodies. He is based...
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    objects beyond the Kuiper Cliff by Scott Sheppard, Chadwick Trujillo and David Tholen gives a diameter of 250 kilometers assuming a moderate albedo of 0.10...
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  • (10–16 mi). It was discovered on 7 September 2021 by Scott S. Sheppard, David J. Tholen, Chad Trujillo, and Patryk S. Lykawka using the 8.2-meter Subaru Telescope...
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    Archive. Retrieved 15 October 2018. Scott Sheppard; Chadwick Trujillo; David Tholen; Nathan Kaib (2 October 2018). "A New High Perihelion Inner Oort Cloud...
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    (674118) 2015 KH162 (category Discoveries by David J. Tholen)
    the Subaru Telescope. The discovery was announced by Scott Sheppard, David Tholen and Chad Trujillo on 23 February 2016. At the time, this minor planet...
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  • observations by American astronomers Robert J. Whiteley, Carl Hergenrother and David Tholen. Lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period of 0.1701 hours (612 second)...
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