Roy A. Tucker

Roy A. Tucker ( born 1951, in Jackson (Mississippi), USA ) is an American astronomer. He is regarded as an outstanding discoverer of asteroids. He has identified between 1996 and 2006 more than 210 asteroids and co-discovered.

Tucker grew up in Memphis ( Tennessee). Since 1966 he is a member of Memphis Astronomical Society. He earned a master's at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is currently working as an engineer in the Imaging Technology Laboratory at the University of Arizona.

Awards and discoveries

• 2002, as one of five scientists who were awarded the "Gene Shoemaker Near Earth Object Grant".
• As probably the most important discovery is considered the Mitentdeckung of the asteroid ( 99942 ) Apophis (previously better known under its provisional designation 2004 MN4 ) along with David J. Tholen and Fabrizio Bernardi of the University of Hawaii. The asteroid will come very close to Earth on April 13, 2029.

Further reading

• Aguirre, Edwin L. 1999 Sentinel of the Sky -. Armed with a Modest Telescope and CCD Camera, Tucson Amateur Roy A Tucker Joins the Ranks of Professional Astronomers Who Have Discovered Near- Earth Objects. Sky and Telescope. 97, no 3: 76
• CCD Precision Photometry Workshop, Eric R. Craine, Roy A. Tucker, Jeannette V. Barnes. CCD Precision Photometry Workshop: Proceedings of a Meeting Held at San Diego, California, USA, 6-7 June 1998 Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series, v. 189 San Francisco, Calif.:. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1999. ISBN 1-58381-015-3.