Brian G. W. Manning Explained

Brian G. W. Manning
Birth Place:14 May 1926 Handsworth, Birmingham, England
Death Place:Nightingales Residential home, Worcestershire, England
Occupation:Astronomer

Brian George William Manning (14 May 1926 – 10 November 2011)[1] was an English astronomer who discovered 19 minor planets. He was born in 1926 in Birmingham. He constructed his first mirror from a piece of glass that a World War II bomb blew out of the roof of the factory where his father worked. He began as an engineering draughtsman but later became a metrologist at the University of Birmingham. In the late 1950s, he constructed an interference-controlled ruling machine in a home workshop, which was able to rule high-quality 3 by 2 inch gratings.[2] In 1990, he received the H. E. Dall prize of the BAA.[2] [3]

Discoveries

Brian Manning is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 19 minor planets he made at Stakenbridge Observatory (494), near Kidderminster, England, between 1989 and 1997. All of his discovered minor planets are asteroids of the main-belt:

Discoveries by Brian G. W. Manning (i)
17 January 1991
24 March 1990
4 October 1989
31 October 1989
31 October 1989
4 November 1989
12 January 1991
22 November 1989
12 January 1991
2 January 1994
Discoveries by Brian G. W. Manning (ii)
25 December 1995
3 September 1996
31 October 1989
11 November 1991
26 October 1994
11 November 1991
30 November 1997
4 October 1989
25 December 1997

References

External links

Notes and References

  1. Hurst 2012, p. 118.
  2. Book: William Liller . The Cambridge Guide to Astronomical Discovery . 1992 . . 0-521-41839-9 . 121.
  3. https://web.archive.org/web/20130927195346/http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/obituaries/74240415/brian-george-william-manning-1926-2011 EBSCOhost Connection