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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 14,402 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Gary Hug is the 547th most popular astronomer (down from 498th in 2019).

Memorability Metrics

  • 14k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 35.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Gary Hug ranks 547 out of 531Before him are Alan Hale, Chad Trujillo, Miloš Tichý, David J. Tholen, Satoru Otomo, and Wendy Freedman. After him are Debra Fischer, Marc William Buie, Osamu Muramatsu, Matthew J. Holman, Lenka Kotková, and Arnold Wolfendale.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Gary Hug ranks 618Before him are Volker Fischer, Pamela Franklin, Parveen Sultana, Pawan Kumar Chamling, Rodney Crowell, and Svetla Otsetova. After him are Nasirul Mulk, Patty Murray, Phoebe Snow, Laura Kelly, Charles Frazier, and Jackie Speier.

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