ASTRONOMER

Gary Hug

1950 - Today

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Gary Hug is an American amateur astronomer and a prolific discoverer of minor planets, who, along with Graham E. Bell, operates the Farpoint Observatory and Sandlot Observatory (H36) in Kansas, United States. He is the co-discoverer of comet 178P/Hug-Bell and was awarded twice a Gene Shoemaker NEO Grant for improved near-Earth object searches in 2009 and 2018, respectively. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gary Hug has received more than 16,312 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Gary Hug is the 543rd most popular astronomer (up from 547th in 2019).

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Gary Hug ranks 543 out of 644. Before him are Ruby Payne-Scott, Seiji Ueda, Mary Proctor, Lawrence H. Aller, Andrew Ainslie Common, and Walter Frederick Gale. After him are György Kulin, Helen Sawyer Hogg, Miguel Itzigsohn, Vera Gaze, Anne Sewell Young, and Ewine van Dishoeck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Gary Hug ranks 539. Before him are Nikos Kotzias, Tatyana Averina, Ion Dumitru, Sharat Saxena, Bob Orton Jr., and Momčilo Vukotić. After him are Sultan Rakhmanov, Jenny Beavan, Katie Eder, Radmilo Ivančević, Andres Serrano, and Markie Post.

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