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Keith Peter Tritton (Brighton, 1944) è un astronomo britannico che si è occupato principalmente di radiogalassie e quasar..

Biografia

Tritton ha studiato al Corpus Christi College dell'Università di Cambridge[1]. Ha sposato una collega, Susan Barbara Pocock[2].

Carriera

Ha lavorato presso l'Osservatorio di Greenwich dal 1967 al 1997[3]. Tritton è membro dell'IAU[4] e della Royal Astronomical Society[5]. Nel 1978 ha scoperto due comete, la 157P/Tritton e la C/1978 G2 McNaught-Tritton.

Riconoscimenti

Gli è stato dedicato un asteroide, 46442 Keithtritton[3].

Note

Controllo di autorità	VIAF (EN) 9910152 · ISNI (EN) 0000 0000 8355 9125 · LCCN (EN) n82091697 · BNF (FR) cb12281513d (data) · WorldCat Identities (EN) lccn-n82091697

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[en] Keith Tritton

Keith Peter Tritton (born 1944) is a British astronomer and observatory manager who has worked in various different parts of the world. He joined the Royal Greenwich Observatory (then at Herstmonceux in Sussex) in 1967 as a research astronomer and later worked at the Radcliffe Observatory in South Africa and the Royal Observatory Edinburgh. He spent a number of years as a university lecturer in the Philippines and in Thailand. His particular interest is observational astronomy. He was head of the UK Schmidt Telescope in Australia and of the Isaac Newton Group of telescopes in the Canary Islands. In 1987, he returned to the Royal Greenwich Observatory and moved with them to Cambridge in 1990, where he became head of the Astronomy Division. He took early retirement in 1997. Between 1995 and 2011 he was an Associate Lecturer in astronomy and planetary science with the Open University.

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- [it] Keith Peter Tritton

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