Brian G. W. Manning | |
|---|---|
| Born | 14 May 1926 Handsworth,Birmingham, England |
| Died | 10 November 2011(2011-11-10) (aged 85) Nightingales Residential home,Worcestershire, England |
| Occupation | Astronomer |
Brian George William Manning (14 May 1926 – 10 November 2011)[1] was an Englishastronomer who discovered 19minor planets.[2] He was born in 1926 inBirmingham. He constructed his first mirror from a piece of glass that a World War II bomb blew out of the roof of the factory where his father worked. He began as an engineering draughtsman but later became ametrologist at theUniversity of Birmingham. In the late 1950s, he constructed an interference-controlled ruling machine in a home workshop, which was able to rule high-quality 3 by 2 inch gratings.[3] In 1990, he received theH. E. Dall prize of the BAA.[3][4]
Brian Manning is credited by theMinor Planet Center with the discovery of 19 minor planets he made at Stakenbridge Observatory (494), near Kidderminster, England, between 1989 and 1997.[2] All of his discovered minor planets areasteroids of themain-belt:
| Object | Date | MPC |
|---|---|---|
| 4751 Alicemanning | 17 January 1991 | MPC |
| 4506 Hendrie | 24 March 1990 | MPC |
| 7239 Mobberley | 4 October 1989 | MPC |
| 7465 Munkanber | 31 October 1989 | MPC |
| 7519 Paulcook | 31 October 1989 | MPC |
| 7573 Basfifty | 4 November 1989 | MPC |
| 6156 Dall | 12 January 1991 | MPC |
| 6191 Eades | 22 November 1989 | MPC |
| 8166 Buczynski | 12 January 1991 | MPC |
| 8545 McGee | 2 January 1994 | MPC |
| 8914 Nickjames | 25 December 1995 | MPC |
| 10381 Malinsmith | 3 September 1996 | MPC |
| 10515 Old Joe | 31 October 1989 | MPC |
| 10538 Torode | 11 November 1991 | MPC |
| 15347 Colinstuart | 26 October 1994 | MPC |
| 24728 Scagell | 11 November 1991 | MPC |
| 52633 Turvey | 30 November 1997 | MPC |
| (69273) 1989 TN1 | 4 October 1989 | MPC |
| (100690) 1997 YY6 | 25 December 1997 | MPC |
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