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R. Scott Dunbar had a hand in the discovery of eight asteroid
Asteroid

Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, smaller than planets but larger than meteoroids....
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Dunbar discovered the comet 3551 Verenia
3551 Verenia

3551 Verenia is an Amor asteroid and a Mars-crosser asteroid discovered in 1983 by R. Scott Dunbar. Although Verenia passed within 40 Gm of the Earth in the 20th century, it will never do so in the 21st....
 by himself. He was a co-discoverer with Eleanor F. Helin
Eleanor F. Helin

Eleanor Francis Helin was an American astronomer. She was principal investigator of the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking program of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory....
 six times: 3360 Syrinx, (6065) 1987 OC, 6435 Daveross
6435 Daveross

6435 Daveross is a Inner Main-belt Asteroid discovered on February 24, 1984 by E. F. Helin and R. S. Dunbar at Palomar Observatory....
, (7163) 1984 DB, 1983 LB, and 1983 LC. Dunbar also co-discovered 3362 Khufu
3362 Khufu

3362 Khufu is a near-Earth asteroid asteroid. It was discovered by R. Scott Dunbar and Maria A. Barucci at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, on August 30, 1984....
 with Maria A. Barucci. 3718 Dunbar
3718 Dunbar

3718 Dunbar is a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on November 07, 1978 by Helin, E. F. and Bus, S. J. at Palomar Observatory....
, discovered by E. F. Helin and Schelte J. Bus
Schelte J. Bus

Schelte John "Bobby" Bus is an Associate Astronomer at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy and Support Astronomer at NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility IRTF....
, is named after him.

Dunbar and Helin also claimed the discovery of comet 1980 p, which turned out not to exist.






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R. Scott Dunbar had a hand in the discovery of eight asteroid
Asteroid

Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, smaller than planets but larger than meteoroids....
s.

Dunbar discovered the comet 3551 Verenia
3551 Verenia

3551 Verenia is an Amor asteroid and a Mars-crosser asteroid discovered in 1983 by R. Scott Dunbar. Although Verenia passed within 40 Gm of the Earth in the 20th century, it will never do so in the 21st....
 by himself. He was a co-discoverer with Eleanor F. Helin
Eleanor F. Helin

Eleanor Francis Helin was an American astronomer. She was principal investigator of the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking program of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory....
 six times: 3360 Syrinx, (6065) 1987 OC, 6435 Daveross
6435 Daveross

6435 Daveross is a Inner Main-belt Asteroid discovered on February 24, 1984 by E. F. Helin and R. S. Dunbar at Palomar Observatory....
, (7163) 1984 DB, 1983 LB, and 1983 LC. Dunbar also co-discovered 3362 Khufu
3362 Khufu

3362 Khufu is a near-Earth asteroid asteroid. It was discovered by R. Scott Dunbar and Maria A. Barucci at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, on August 30, 1984....
 with Maria A. Barucci. 3718 Dunbar
3718 Dunbar

3718 Dunbar is a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on November 07, 1978 by Helin, E. F. and Bus, S. J. at Palomar Observatory....
, discovered by E. F. Helin and Schelte J. Bus
Schelte J. Bus

Schelte John "Bobby" Bus is an Associate Astronomer at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy and Support Astronomer at NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility IRTF....
, is named after him.

Dunbar and Helin also claimed the discovery of comet 1980 p, which turned out not to exist. It was a ghost image of Alpha Leonis.