By Robin Young | Manager of Donor Relations
Who is Bob Holmes, you ask? He is the Director of the Astronomical Research Institure in Charleston, IL, AND is the only four-time winner of the Shoemaker Grant. He does crucial work in Near-Earth Object follow-up observations, which are critical to determing orbits of newly discovered asteroids.
This past year, his Astronomical Research Institute has been making improvements to the NEO program. In 2015, over 193 nights, ARI produced 47,445 NEO measures, with over 1,100 of those measures fainter than magnitude 22.0. That is most ever produced in a single calendar year!
The important work being done by Bob Holmes and many others like him is crucial to planetary defense, as we seek to learn more about potentially dangerous asteroids and comets.
The photo below:
Four time Shoemaker NEO Grant winner Bob Holmes of the Astronomical Research Institute in Illinois, USA with the wide field of view 0.76 m (30 in) telescope on which a camera purchased with a 2013 grant has been placed.
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