Robert George Harrington (December 3, 1904 – June 15, 1987[1]) was an Americanastronomer who worked atPalomar Observatory.[2] He should not be confused withRobert Sutton Harrington, who was also an astronomer, but was born later and worked at theUS Naval Observatory.
He discovered or co-discovered a number of comets, including periodic comets43P/Wolf–Harrington,51P/Harrington (discovered in 1953),52P/Harrington–Abell (discovered jointly withGeorge Ogden Abell in 1955) and the comet/asteroid107P/Wilson–Harrington, which he andAlbert Wilson discovered in 1949 and which had become an asteroid by 1988.[3]
Harrington discovered thedwarf galaxiesLeo I andLeo II and co-discovered theglobular clusterPalomar 12 withFritz Zwicky.
Theasteroid3216 Harrington was not named after Robert George Harrington, but rather afterRobert Sutton Harrington. Harrington's name is, however, associated with theasteroid/comet107P/Wilson–Harrington.
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