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Brian A. Skiff

Brian A. Skiff is an American astronomer noted for discovering numerous asteroids and a number of comets including the periodic comets 114P/Wiseman–Skiff (with Jennifer Wiseman) and 140P/Bowell–Skiff (with Edward Bowell).

Skiff received his BS from Northern Arizona University in 1977^[2] and has worked as an astronomer at Lowell Observatory since 1976.^[3]

Between 1980 and 1997, he has also discovered a total 60 numbered minor planets,^[1] including (15398) 1997 UZ₂₃, a dark Jupiter trojan about 37 kilometers in diameter.^[4] Working on the LONEOS project he rediscovered the long lost asteroid 69230 Hermes in October 2003 and the Apohele asteroid (434326) 2004 JG6 in May 2004.^{[citation needed]}

The Florian main-belt asteroid 2554 Skiff was named in his honour.^[5] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 8 April 1982 (M.P.C. 6834).^[6]

Skiff received the Texas Star Party’s Lone Star Gazer Award in 1986.^[7]

Brian Skiff is credited with the discovery and co-discovery of 60 minor planets between 1981 and 1997. The co-discovery of 2557 Putnam, 3256 Daguerre, 3807 Pagels and 4193 Salanave he made in collaboration with Norman G. Thomas ^A .^[1]

• List of minor planet discoverers § B. A. Skiff

Skiff has published 122 refereed papers on astronomy.^[8] His most cited paper is:

• Radick, Richard R.; Lockwood, G. W.; Skiff, B. A.; Baliunas, S. L. (1998). "Patterns of Variation among Sun‐like Stars". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 118 (1): 239–258. Bibcode:1998ApJS..118..239R. doi:10.1086/313135. ISSN 0067-0049. S2CID 122270314.

He is also the author of two books:

• Tirion, Wil; Skiff, Brian (1990). Bright Star Atlas 2000.0. Richmond, Virginia: Willmann-Bell, Inc. ISBN 0-943396-27-1.
• Luginbuhl, Christian B.; Skiff, Brian A. (1998). Observing Handbook and Catalogue of Deep-Sky Objects. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521625562.