joseph ashbrook

Joseph Ashbrook (April 4 1918 – August 4 1980) was an American astronomer Ashbrook was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was one of the first to study Cepheid variables as tools for establishing galactic distances. He was a longtime member of the AAVSO. He went through old archives of observations from centuries past to determine a highly precise value for the rotation period of Mars —to within a few thousandths of a second. He co-discovered the periodic comet 47P/Ashbrook-Jackson. A crater on the Moon and the asteroid 2157 Ashbrook are named after him. He served as editor of Sky and Telescope magazine and wrote the Astronomical Scrapbook column for it.

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JAVSO 9 (1980) 43
Sky and Telescope 60 (1980) 281

Ashbrook, Joseph Ashbrook, Joseph Ashbrook, Joseph

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