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Philip Herbert Cowell (August 7, 1870, Calcutta – June 6, 1949) was a British 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...

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Philip Herbert Cowell was born in calcutta, India and educated at Eton

Eton College

Eton College, often referred to simply as Eton, is a British independent school for boys aged 13 to 18. It was founded in 1440 by King Henry VI as "The King's College of Our Lady of Eton besides Wyndsor"....

 and Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College, Cambridge

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. He became second chief assistant at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in 1896 and later became the Superintendent of HM Nautical Almanac Office

HM Nautical Almanac Office

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 during 1910–1930. He worked on celestial mechanics

Celestial mechanics

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, and orbits of comet

Comet

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s and minor planet

Minor planet

An asteroid group or minor-planet group is a population of minor planets that have a share broadly similar orbits. Members are generally unrelated to each other, unlike in an asteroid family, which often results from the break-up of a single asteroid...

s in particular. He also carefully studied the discrepancy that then existed between the theory and observation of the position of the Moon

Moon

The Moon is Earth's only known natural satellite,There are a number of near-Earth asteroids including 3753 Cruithne that are co-orbital with Earth: their orbits bring them close to Earth for periods of time but then alter in the long term . These are quasi-satellites and not true moons. For more...

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He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May, 1906. He won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society

Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society

-History:In the early years, more than one medal was often awarded in a year, but by 1833 only one medal was being awarded per year. This caused a problem when Neptune was discovered in 1846, because many felt an award should jointly be made to John Couch Adams and Urbain Le Verrier...

 in 1911.

He discovered the 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...

 4358 Lynn

4358 Lynn

4358 Lynn is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 5, 1909 by Philip Cowell at Greenwich. Named after William Thynne Lynn of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.- External links :*...

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He died in Aldeburgh, Suffolk. The asteroid

Asteroid

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 1898 Cowell

1898 Cowell

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is named after him.

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