9084 Achristou | 3 February 1995 |
10369 Sinden | 8 February 1995 |
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15834 McBride | 4 February 1995 |
16693 Moseley | 26 December 1994 |
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26891 Johnbutler | 7 February 1995 |
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42531 McKenna | 5 June 1995 [2] |
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David J. Asher (born 1966 in Edinburgh) is a British astronomer, who works at the Armagh Observatory (IAU code 981) in Northern Ireland. [3] [4] [5] [6] He studied mathematics at Cambridge and received his doctorate from Oxford. [7] He is known for the meteor research that he conducts with Robert McNaught. [8] [9] [10] [11] In 1999 and 2000, they accurately gauged when the Leonids meteor shower would peak, while underestimating the peak intensities. [12] [13] [14] [15]
The Mars-crosser asteroid 6564 Asher, discovered by Robert McNaught in 1992, was named in his honor. [3]