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Eleanor F. Helin

1932 - 2009

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Eleanor Francis "Glo" Helin (née Francis, 19 November 1932 – 25 January 2009) was an American astronomer. She was principal investigator of the Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) program of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. (Some sources give her name as Eleanor Kay Helin.) Helin was a prolific discoverer of minor planets (see list) and several comets, including periodic comets 111P/Helin–Roman–Crockett, 117P/Helin–Roman–Alu and 132P/Helin–Roman–Alu. She is credited as the discoverer of the object now known as both asteroid 4015 Wilson–Harrington and comet 107P/Wilson–Harrington. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eleanor F. Helin is the 160th most popular astronomer (up from 193rd in 2019), the 2,098th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,620th in 2019) and the 27th most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Eleanor F. Helin ranks 160 out of 644. Before her are Jacobus Kapteyn, Jeremiah Horrocks, Bernard Lyot, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, and William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse. After her are Alphonse Borrelly, Johann Adam Schall von Bell, Harlow Shapley, James Ferguson, Cornelis Johannes van Houten, and John Goodricke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Eleanor F. Helin ranks 106. Before her are Wojciech Kilar, Nagisa Oshima, José Saraiva Martins, Antonio Tejero, Joe Zawinul, and Naina Yeltsina. After her are Quino, Alan Bean, Wolf Vostell, Gunter Sachs, Michihiro Ozawa, and Ingemar Johansson. Among people deceased in 2009, Eleanor F. Helin ranks 58. Before her are Clive Granger, Albert Barillé, Sverre Fehn, Sergey Mikhalkov, Kazumi Takada, and Toni Sailer. After her are J. G. Ballard, Ertuğrul Osman, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Susan Atkins, Israel Gelfand, and Mario Benedetti.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Eleanor F. Helin ranks 2,098 out of 20,380. Before her are Richard Rodgers (1902), Richard E. Stearns (1936), Richard Jenkins (1947), Peter Diamond (1940), Charles W. Morris (1903), and George Takei (1937). After her are Alice Walker (1944), Henry Hartsfield (1933), John G. Trump (1907), Dorothy Malone (1924), James Pickens Jr. (1954), and Kirk Hammett (1962).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Eleanor F. Helin ranks 27. Before her are Annie Jump Cannon (1863), James Van Allen (1914), Frank Drake (1930), Maria Mitchell (1818), Carolyn S. Shoemaker (1929), and William Henry Pickering (1858). After her are Harlow Shapley (1885), Carl Keenan Seyfert (1911), Robert Grant Aitken (1864), Henry Draper (1837), George Phillips Bond (1825), and George William Hill (1838).

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