Simon F. Green (born 1959) is anastronomer. He is a Senior Lecturer in Planetary and Space Science at theOpen University. He specializes in the study ofasteroids andtrans-Neptunian objects, and for a long time worked with theIRAS satellite to detect fast moving objects. In 1983, along withJohn K. Davies, he discovered theApollo asteroid3200 Phaethon.

Asteroid9831 Simongreen is named after him.^[1]

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