Word: tuckers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...initial circumstances under which Roy A. Tucker of Tucson, Arizona, discovered the comet LONEOS-Tucker P/1998 QP54 on September 13 seems to mirror Williams' find...
...only thing remarkable about the discovery is that I found the comet during the very first scan of the sky the first clear night after our summer monsoons ended," Tucker says...
Unbeknownst to Tucker at the time, the LONEOS program, a professional search effort at Lowell Observatory, had already sighted the comet, but the program mistook the comet for a common Main Belt asteroid...
...Both Tucker and LONEOS received joint recognition for the discovery...
...Tucker says he plans to use the financial award toward expanding the search capacity of his instrumentation...