• perspective.... Tom Gehrels was the husband of Aleida J. Gehrels (née de Stoppelaar) and father of Neil Gehrels, George Gehrels and Jo-Ann Gehrels. He died in...
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  • university teacher Jürgen Gehrels (born 1935), German businessman Neil Gehrels (1952–2017), American astrophysicist Tom Gehrels (1925–2011), Dutch–American...
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  • 1960, and named for astronomer Tom Gehrels, one of the survey's principal investigators and credited discoverer. Gehrels was discovered during the Palomar–Leiden...
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    78P/Gehrels, also known as Gehrels 2, is a Jupiter-family periodic comet in the Solar System with a current orbital period of 7.22 years. It was discovered...
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    and Makemake, though no-one would get credit for Haumea. Together with Tom Gehrels of the University of Arizona and his Spacewatch team, Rabinowitz discovered...
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  • jointly credited trio with Tom Gehrels and Ingrid, he was an extremely prolific discoverer of many thousands of asteroids. Gehrels did a sky survey using...
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    similar currently active programs. Spacewatch was founded in 1980 by Tom Gehrels and Robert S. McMillan, and is currently led by astronomer Melissa Brucker...
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    ISBN 978-3642297182. Bell, J.F.; et al. (2015). Richard P. Binzel; Tom Gehrels; Mildred Shapley Matthews (eds.). Asteroids: The Big Picture in Asteroids...
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    September 2019). "Outbursts at Comets 46P/Wirtanen, 64P/Swift-Gehrels, and 78P/Gehrels 2 in 2018". Research Notes of the AAS. 3 (9): 126. Bibcode:2019RNAAS...
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    the astronomers Cornelis van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels. (This is the only instance where the list of minor planets diverges...
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  • 5040 Rabinowitz (category Discoveries by Tom Gehrels)
    kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by Dutch–American astronomer Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory on 15 September 1972. Contrary to most of his...
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  • 82P/Gehrels is a periodic comet that was discovered on October 27, 1975, by Tom Gehrels at the Palomar Mountain Observatory in California having a faint...
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    asteroid that orbits between Mars and Jupiter after him in November 1995. Tom Gehrels, who had originally discovered the asteroid in 1985 but never named it...
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  • (1905–1973), Dutch-born American astronomer MPC · 1776 1777 Gehrels 4007 P-L Tom Gehrels (1925–2011), Dutch-born American astronomer MPC · 1777 1778 Alfvén...
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    Ekalaya, the king of the Paranggelung state). The American astronomer Tom Gehrels named a class of asteroids with low inclination, low eccentricity and...
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    kilometers taken from the publication Hazards due to Comets and Asteroids (Tom Gehrels, 1994). The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a standard...
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  • 2048 2049 Grietje 1973 SH G. A. M. Haring-Gehrels, sister-in-law of Dutch-born American astronomer Tom Gehrels † MPC · 2049 2050 Francis 1974 KA Fred and...
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  • 37452 Spirit (category Discoveries by Tom Gehrels)
    Ingrid and Cornelis van Houten at Leiden, on photographic plates taken by Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory, California. It was named after NASA's Spirit...
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  • 1864 Daedalus (category Discoveries by Tom Gehrels)
    diameter. It was discovered on 24 March 1971, by Dutch–American astronomer Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory, California, and named after Daedalus from Greek...
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  • the common S-type to the rather rare Q-type asteroids. In the 1990s, Tom Gehrels gave a first diameter estimate for Morpheus of 1.8 kilometers. According...
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    diameter and its surface has a high albedo between 0.39 and 0.52. in 1994, Tom Gehrels published a diameter of 1.1 kilometers and an albedo of 0.26 in his book...
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    March 2015) was a Dutch astronomer. In a jointly credited trio with Tom Gehrels and her husband Cornelis Johannes van Houten, she was the discoverer...
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    van Houten-Groeneveld who, along with Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Tom Gehrels, discovered the asteroid on September 24, 1960. Opportunity's lander...
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    Photometry". nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. NASA. Retrieved February 19, 2011. T. Gehrels. "Pioneer 11: Imaging Photopolarimeter (IPP)". nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. NASA...
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  • engineer. MPC · 5922 5923 Liedeke 1992 WC8 Liedeke Gehrels-de Stoppelaar, wife of astronomer Tom Gehrels † MPC · 5923 5924 Teruo 1994 CH1 Teruo Saegusa,...
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  • 5041 Theotes (category Discoveries by Tom Gehrels)
    at Leiden, on photographic plates taken by Dutch–American astronomer Tom Gehrels at the Palomar Observatory, California. The dark Jovian asteroid belongs...
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  • 10979 Fristephenson (category Discoveries by Tom Gehrels)
    29 September 1973, by Ingrid and Cornelis van Houten at Leiden, and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory in California, United States. The dark C-type...
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    processed to build up a visual image of the planet. Principal investigator: Tom Gehrels / University of Arizona Data: NSSDC data archive list Infrared Radiometer...
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    5196 Bustelli (category Discoveries by Tom Gehrels)
    by Dutch astronomers Ingrid and Cornelis van Houten at Leiden, and Tom Gehrels the Palomar Observatory. The S-type asteroid was named after Italian-Swiss...
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    |url=https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/remembering-tom-gehrels-19252011/ |title=REMEMBERING TOM GEHRELS (1925-2011) |newspaper=Sky & Telescope |date=12 July...
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