Richard Martin West

Richard Martin West

Richard Martin West (born 1941) is a Danish astronomer and discoverer of astronomical objects with a long career at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and at the International Astronomical Union (IAU). He discovered numerous comets, including Comet West (C/1975 V1), which was one of the brightest comets of the 1970s, and the periodic comets 76P/West–Kohoutek–Ikemura and 123P/West–Hartley. He is also credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 40 minor planets between 1976 and 1986, including 2146 Stentor and 2148 Epeios, two Trojan asteroids. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Martin West has received more than 19,886 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Richard Martin West is the 305th most popular astronomer (up from 354th in 2019), the 355th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 384th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Danish Astronomer.