| 4358 Lynn | 5 October 1909 | MPC |
Philip Herbert CowellFRS[2] (1870 – 1949) was a Britishastronomer.[3][4][5]
Philip Herbert Cowell was born inCalcutta, India on the 7 August 1870, and educated atEton andTrinity College, Cambridge.[6] He became second chief assistant at theRoyal Greenwich Observatory in 1896 and later became the Superintendent ofHM Nautical Almanac Office between 1910 and 1930. He worked oncelestial mechanics, and orbits ofcomets andminor planets in particular. He also carefully studied the discrepancy that then existed between the theory and observation of the position of theMoon.
Cowell was elected aFellow of the Royal Astronomical Society on 14 February 1896.[7] On 27 October 1897 he was elected a member of theBritish Astronomical Association.[8] He was also elected aFellow of the Royal Society on 3 May 1906.[2][9] In 1911 he won theGold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society.
In 1909, he discovered4358 Lynn, a 10-kilometer sized main-beltasteroid and member of theEunomia.[10][11]
In 1910, for their work onHalley’s Comet Cowell andAndrew Crommelin jointly received thePrix Jules Janssen, the highest award of theSociété astronomique de France, the French astronomical society and the Lindemann Prize of theAstronomische Gesellschaft.[12][13]
He died inAldeburgh, Suffolk on 6 June 1949. The main-belt asteroid1898 Cowell is named after him.[14]
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