William Kwong Yu Yeung
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William Kwong Yu Yeung (born 1960; also known simply as Bill Yeung; Template:Zh) is a Hong Kong-born, Canadian amateur astronomer with telescopes based in the United States.<ref name="Denny-2003" /><ref name="MPC-Yeungkwongyu" />
He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids and also discovered the comet 172P/Yeung. He also discovered the object J002E3, which was first thought to be an asteroid, but is now known to be part of a Saturn V Rocket that propelled Apollo 12 into space. He worked first from "Rock Finder Observatory" (IAU code 652) in Calgary, Alberta, and now works from Arizona's Desert Beaver Observatory Template:Obscode and Desert Eagle Observatory Template:Obscode.
Awards and honors
The outer main-belt asteroid 40776 Yeungkwongyu, discovered by astronomer Roy Tucker at Goodricke-Pigott Observatory (Template:Small) in 1999, was named in his honor.<ref name="MPC-Yeungkwongyu" /> The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 9 June 2017 (Template:Small).<ref name="MPC-Circulars-Archive" />
List of discovered minor planets
Yeung is one of the most prolific discoverers of minor planets, credited by the Minor Planet Center with more than 2,000 numbered minor planets.<ref name="MPC-Discoverers" /> The list below gives most of his discoveries in groups of 50 bodies, sorted by ascending number.
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