First 24-hour weather forecasts in South Africa, 12 numbered asteroids
Spouse
Mary Ethel Greengrass
Scientific career
Fields
Astronomy
Institutions
Royal Meteorological Society
South African Association for the Advancement of Science (1906)
Royal Astronomical Society (1909)
Astronomische Gesellschaft (1913)
Royal Society of South Africa (1917)
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Harry Edwin Wood (3 February 1881 – 27 February 1946) was an English astronomer, director of the Union Observatory in Johannesburg, and discoverer of minor planets.[2][3]
Wood was born in Manchester, graduating from Manchester University in 1902 with first class honours in physics, going on to gain an MSc in 1905. In 1906 he was appointed the Chief Assistant at the Transvaal Meteorological Observatory, which soon acquired telescopes and which became known as the Union Observatory and later Republic Observatory. In July 1906, he established South Africa's first 24-hour weather forecasts through telegraph in the Transvaal.[1] In 1909, he married Mary Ethel Greengrass, also a physics graduate of Manchester University. Wood served as the observatory's director from 1928 to 1941, succeeding Robert Innes. He also served as the president of the Astronomical Society of South Africa from 1929 to 1930.[2]
Wood is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 12 numbered asteroids during 1911–1932.[4]
He died in Mortimer, near Cradock, South Africa, in 1946. The asteroid 1660 Wood, discovered by his colleague Jacobus Bruwer at Johannesburg, is named in his honour (M.P.C. 3297).[3]
Asteroids discovered: 12 [4]
715 Transvaalia
22 April 1911
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758 Mancunia
18 May 1912
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790 Pretoria
16 January 1912
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982 Franklina
21 May 1922
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1032 Pafuri
30 May 1924
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1096 Reunerta
21 July 1928
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1241 Dysona
4 March 1932
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1305 Pongola
19 July 1928
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1595 Tanga
19 June 1930
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1663 van den Bos
4 August 1926
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2193 Jackson
18 May 1926
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3300 McGlasson
10 July 1928
list
Co-discovery made with: A C. Jackson
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