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James Whitney Young
James Whitney Young (January 24, 1941) was born in Portland, Oregon, and is currently the resident astronomer of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Table Mountain Observatory (TMO) near Wrightwood, California having been with them for nearly 44 years. A very prolific asteroid observer of both physical properties and astrometric positions, he has discovered some 340 main belt asteroids in the last four years, as well as two NEOs, and and one extra-galactic supernova, SN 2005eg.
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