Philip Herbert Cowell
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Philip Herbert Cowell (August 7 1870 – June 6 1949) was a British astronomer.
He became second chief assistant at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in 1896 and later became the Superintendent of HM Nautical Almanac Office during 1910–1930. He worked on celestial mechanics, and orbits of comets and minor planets in particular. He also carefully studied the discrepancy that then existed between the theory and observation of the position of the Moon.
He won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1911.
He discovered the asteroid 4358 Lynn.
The asteroid 1898 Cowell is named after him.
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Obituaries
- MNRAS 110 (1950) 125 (http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/MNRAS/0110//0000125.000.html)
- Obs 69 (1949) 159 (http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/Obs../0069//0000159.000.html) (one line)
- PASP 61 (1949) 242 (http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/PASP./0061//0000242.000.html) (one paragraph)