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Oct 18, 2022 · Charles Thomas Kowal (Charlie) passed away on Monday November 28, 2011 in Cinebar, Washington. He was 71. Kowal was widely known for his discoveries and observations of small solar system bodies and especially for the 1977 discovery of 2060 Chiron, the first and among the largest of the Centaur-class of asteroids which have unstable orbits lying between Jupiter and Neptune.
Charles T. Kowal. Charles Thomas Kowal (November 8, 1940 – November 28, 2011) was an American astronomer known for his observations and discoveries in the Solar System. As a staff astronomer at Caltech's Mount Wilson and Palomar Mountain observatories between 1961 and 1984, he found the first of a new class of Solar System objects, the ...
Charles T. Kowal. 1940. American astronomer who in 1977 discovered the astronomical body Chiron inside the orbit of Uranus. Although early newspaper accounts wrongly called Chiron the solar system 's tenth planet, Chiron is actually a very large (200-300 km /120-190 miles) diameter comet that travels between Saturn and Uranus.
Charles Thomas Kowal (November 8, 1940 – November 28, 2011) was an American astronomer known for his observations and discoveries in the Solar System.As a staff astronomer at Caltech's Mount Wilson and Palomar Mountain observatories between 1961 and 1984, he found the first of a new class of Solar System objects, the centaurs, discovered two moons of the planet Jupiter, and discovered or co ...
Charles Thomas Kowal, American astronomer. Discovered bright supernova, 1972, 13th satellite of Jupiter, 1974, large planetoid between orbits of Saturn and Uranus, 1977, also asteroids and comets; recovered lost comets and asteroids. Recipient James Craig Watson award National Academy of Sciences, 1979. Member American Astronomical Society, International Astronomical Union.
Charles T. Kowal. Charles T. Kowal, an associate scientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, has discovered eighty supernovae, five asteroids of the Apollo type, one comet, one (or maybe two) new moons of Jupiter, and the new object, “Chiron.” Search for more papers by this author
Charles T. Kowal. Wiley, Dec 25, 1996 - Science - 172 pages. The only up-to-date book on asteroids at midlevel. Its contents incorporate the very latest developments ...
