Harry Edwin Wood
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| 715 Transvaalia | April 22, 1911 |
| 758 Mancunia | May 18, 1912 |
| 790 Pretoria | January 16, 1912 |
| 982 Franklina | May 21, 1922 |
| 1032 Pafuri | May 30, 1924 |
| 1096 Reunerta | July 21, 1928 |
| 1241 Dysona | March 4, 1932 |
| 1305 Pongola | July 19, 1928 |
| 1595 Tanga [1] | June 19, 1930 |
| 1663 van den Bos | August 4, 1926 |
| 2193 Jackson | May 18, 1926 |
| 3300 McGlasson | July 10, 1928 |
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Harry Edwin Wood (February 3, 1881–February 27, 1946) was a South African astronomer.
Born in Manchester, England, in 1906 he was appointed Chief Assistant at the Transvaal Meteorological Observatory, which soon acquired telescopes and became known as the Union Observatory. He served as its director from 1928 to 1941, succeeding Robert Innes.
He married but had no children.
He served as president of the Astronomical Society of South Africa from 1929 to 1930.
He discovered a number of asteroids.
The asteroid 1660 Wood is named after him.
[edit] External links
- http://www.saao.ac.za/assa/html/his-astr_-_wood_he.html
- Obituary (1947MNRAS.107...60.)
