James Whitney Young

James W. Young
Born (1941-01-24) 24 January 1941 (age 83)
Portland, Oregon, U.S.
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy
Minor planets discovered: 257 [1]
see § List of discovered minor planets

James Whitney Young (born January 24, 1941) is an American astronomer who worked in the field of asteroid research. After nearly 47 years with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at their Table Mountain Facility, Young retired July 16, 2009.

He was a very prolific minor planet-observer of both physical properties and astrometric positions, and had discovered more than 250 asteroids since 2002,[1] most of them from the main-belt, as well as several near-Earth objects, Mars-crossers and Jupiter trojans. He also discovered SN 2004eg, an extra-galactic supernova.

The Florian asteroid 2874 Jim Young was named in his honor.[2]

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