Asteroid

Asteroid

Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...

s discovered: 12

715 Transvaalia 715 Transvaalia 715 Transvaalia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.The object 1911 LX discovered April 22, 1911 by H. E. Wood was named 715 Transvaalia. On April 23, 1920, the object 1920 GZ was discovered and named 933 Susi. In 1928 it was realized that these were one and the same object...	April 22, 1911
758 Mancunia 758 Mancunia -External links:*...	May 18, 1912
790 Pretoria 790 Pretoria 790 Pretoria is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It is a member of the Cybele group located beyond the core of the main belt . It is in diameter with a 10.37 hour rotation period.-External links:*...	January 16, 1912
982 Franklina 982 Franklina 982 Franklina is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.-External links:*...	May 21, 1922
1032 Pafuri 1032 Pafuri 1032 Pafuri is an asteroid. It was discovered by Harry Edwin Wood on May 30, 1924. Its provisional designation was 1924 SA. It was named after the Pafuri River....	May 30, 1924
1096 Reunerta 1096 Reunerta 1096 Reunerta is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. Initially it received the designation 1928 OB. The numerical designation indicates this was the 1096th asteroid discovered. It was named for Theodore Reunert.-External links:* *...	July 21, 1928
1241 Dysona 1241 Dysona 1241 Dysona is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 4, 1932, by Harry Edwin Wood at Johannesburg .- External links :*...	March 4, 1932
1305 Pongola 1305 Pongola 1305 Pongola is a main-belt asteroid discovered on July 19, 1928 by Harry Edwin Wood at Union Observatory.- External links :*...	July 19, 1928

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| 1663 van den Bos

1663 van den Bos

1663 van den Bos is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 4, 1926 by H. E. Wood at Johannesburg .- External links :*...

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| 2193 Jackson

2193 Jackson

2193 Jackson is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 18, 1926 by H. E. Wood at Johannesburg.- External links :*...

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| 3300 McGlasson

3300 McGlasson

3300 McGlasson is a main-belt asteroid discovered on July 10, 1928 by H. E. Wood at Johannesburg .- External links :*...

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   Cyril V. Jackson
   Cyril Jackson was a South African astronomer.He was born in Ossett, Yorkshire in England, but his father emigrated to South Africa in 1911....
   
   

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Harry Edwin Wood (February 3, 1881–February 27, 1946) was an English astronomer

Astronomer

An astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as planets, stars and galaxies.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using...

.

Wood was born in Manchester

Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

, graduating from Manchester University in 1902 with first class honours in physics, going on to gain an M.Sc in 1905. In 1906 he was appointed the Chief Assistant at the Transvaal Meteorological Observatory, which soon acquired telescope

Telescope

A telescope is an instrument that aids in the observation of remote objects by collecting electromagnetic radiation . The first known practical telescopes were invented in the Netherlands at the beginning of the 1600s , using glass lenses...

s and which became known as the Union Observatory

Union Observatory

Union Observatory was an astronomical observatory located in the suburb Observatory, Johannesburg, South Africa. It bears IAU code 078.Known as the Transvaal Observatory in its early years, it became the Republic Observatory in 1961...

. He served as the observatory's director from 1928 to 1941, succeeding Robert Innes.

In 1909, he married Mary Ethel Greengrass, also a physics graduate (1905) of Manchester University. They had no children.

He served as the president of the Astronomical Society of South Africa from 1929 to 1930.

Wood discovered a number (12) of asteroid

Asteroid

Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...

s himself.

The asteroid 1660 Wood

1660 Wood

1660 Wood is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 7, 1953, by the astronomet J. A. Bruwer at The Johannesburg Observatory in South Africa....

is named for him.

External links

• http://www.saao.ac.za/assa/html/his-astr_-_wood_he.html
• Obituary (1947MNRAS.107...60.)