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Gary Hug is an American amateur astronomer and a prolific discoverer of minor planets, who, along with Graham E. Bell, operates the Farpoint Observatory and Sandlot Observatory Template:Obscode in Kansas, United States.<ref name="2009-Shoemaker-NEO-Grant" /><ref name="2018-Shoemaker-NEO-Grant" />
He is the co-discoverer of comet 178P/Hug-Bell and was awarded twice a Gene Shoemaker NEO Grant for improved near-Earth object searches in 2009 and 2018, respectively.<ref name="2009-Shoemaker-NEO-Grant" /><ref name="2018-Shoemaker-NEO-Grant" /> Hug also represents the Northeast Kansas Amateur Astronomer's League.<ref name="2018-Shoemaker-NEO-Grant" />
List of discovered minor planetsEdit
Template:Mp | 18 July 2009 | Template:Small |
Template:Mp | 14 August 2009 | Template:Small |
Template:Mp | 28 January 2011 | Template:Small |
Template:Mp | 18 October 2009 | Template:Small |
Co-discovery made with: Template:Note label G. Bell Template:Note label D. Tibbets |
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External linksEdit
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- Tracking Asteroids From A Backyard In Kansas, interview with Gary Hug
- This Amateur Astronomer Built An Observatory In His Backyard, Popular Science, by Sarah Fecht, 21 June 2016