Edward L. G. Bowell
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Edward L. G. Bowell (or Ted Bowell) is an American astronomer.
He is principal investigator of the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search (LONEOS).
He has discovered a large number of asteroids, both as part of LONEOS and in his own right before LONEOS began. Among the latter are the Trojan asteroids 2357 Phereclos, 2759 Idomeneus, 2797 Teucer, 2920 Automedon, 3564 Talthybius, 4057 Demophon, and (4489) 1988 AK.
He also co-discovered the periodic comet 140P/Bowell-Skiff, and the non-periodic comet C/1980 E1.