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ASTRONOMER

Roy A. Tucker

1951 - 2021

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Roy A. Tucker (1951 – 2021) was an American astronomer best known for the co-discovery of near-Earth asteroid 99942 Apophis (formerly known as 2004 MN4) along with David J. Tholen and Fabrizio Bernardi of the University of Hawaii. He was a prolific discoverer of minor planets, credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 702 numbered minor planets between 1996 and 2010. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roy A. Tucker has received more than 61,756 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Roy A. Tucker is the 497th most popular astronomer (down from 487th in 2019), the 9,092nd most popular biography from United States (up from 9,413th in 2019) and the 107th most popular American Astronomer.

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  • 2.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Roy A. Tucker ranks 497 out of 531Before him are James Challis, Cuno Hoffmeister, Mary Adela Blagg, Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, Irwin I. Shapiro, and David L. Rabinowitz. After him are Hisashi Kimura, Marc Aaronson, Helen Sawyer Hogg, Robert H. McNaught, Hiroki Kosai, and Seiji Ueda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Roy A. Tucker ranks 450Before him are Nedim Gürsel, Roger Pontare, Doug Collins, Gyula Sax, Vladimir Romashkin, and Ellen Nikolaysen. After him are Marietta Giannakou, Peabo Bryson, Ildikó Schwarczenberger, Sylvia Rivera, Vytenis Andriukaitis, and Ian Buruma. Among people deceased in 2021, Roy A. Tucker ranks 554Before him are Leslie Marr, David Darling, Cléber Eduardo Arado, Donald Arnold, Surekha Sikri, and Bonfoh Abass. After him are Porfirio Armando Betancourt, Peter Scolari, Sayaka Kanda, Buddy Van Horn, Conn Findlay, and Viktor Shuvalov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Roy A. Tucker ranks 9,092 out of 18,182Before him are Richard Tucker (1913), Kawhi Leonard (1991), Barney Ewell (1918), Jon Seda (1970), Tracy Scoggins (1953), and Stacy Valentine (1970). After him are Sidney Darlington (1906), Tom Shadyac (1958), Jaden Smith (1998), Luke Askew (1932), Scott Hall (1958), and Tom Seaver (1944).

Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Roy A. Tucker ranks 107Before him are DeLisle Stewart (1870), Charles Augustus Young (1834), Grove Karl Gilbert (1843), John N. Bahcall (1934), Irwin I. Shapiro (1929), and David L. Rabinowitz (1960). After him are Marc Aaronson (1950), Helen Sawyer Hogg (1905), Thomas Bopp (1949), Charles W. Juels (1944), Bruce C. Murray (1931), and A. E. Douglass (1867).