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John Broughton was born on 1952 in Australia, is an Australian astronomer. Discover John Broughton's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

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1952

John Broughton (born 1952) is an Australian amateur astronomer and artist.

1997

He is among the most prolific discoverers of minor planets Worldwide, credited by the Minor Planet Center with more than a thousand discoveries made between 1997 and 2008.

His observations are done at Reedy Creek Observatory, in Queensland, Australia.

2002

In 2002, Broughton was one of five astronomers to be awarded a "Gene Shoemaker NEO Grant" by the Planetary Society to support his work on near-Earth asteroids.

2003

In 2003 he began observing asteroid occultations by taking trailed CCD exposures and measuring the resulting dips in brightness.

Subsequently, he developed methods and applications to facilitate the observation, timing and analysis.

2004

The money enabled the purchase of a CCD camera for use initially on a 10" SCT and later on a 20" f/2.7 automated telescope he designed and constructed, with first light occurring 10 April 2004.

Asteroid 24105 Broughton was named in his honour in 2005, and he later won an Australian national award – the 2008 Page Medal.

He is the discoverer of four near-Earth objects, two of which are potentially hazardous asteroids (PHA).

Discovered 11 April 2004 on the first full night of operations with the 20" telescope, Apollo asteroid is one of only 157 known kilometer-size PHAs and the largest such discovery made by a non-professional astronomer. The short-period comet P/2005 T5 (Broughton) was discovered in October, 2005, followed nine months later by the hyperbolic comet C/2006 OF2 (Broughton) at a distant 7.7 AU from the sun and more than two years from reaching perihelion.

2010

By 2010 he had switched to using sensitive video cameras, and began designing telescopes better suited to multi-station field work than what is commercially available, culminating in collapsible alt-alt telescopes of moderate size, compact enough to take anywhere in the world in standard airline baggage.

2011

In 2011 he formulated a method to derive asteroid dimensions by integrating the results of separate occultations.

The tables are periodically updated and now include over 500 asteroids.