Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Gordon John Garradd (born 1959) is an Australian astronomer from Loomberah, New South Wales. He has discovered numerous asteroids and comets, including C/2009 P1, and four novae in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Garradd has worked for a number of astronomical institutions in the USA and Australia, most recently at Siding Spring Observatory on the Siding Spring Survey, part of the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey for near-Earth objects (2002 - Oct 2011). There are 16 comets and an asteroid named after Garradd. As of 15 June 2014, the International Astronomical Union lists him as the discoverer of 31 minor planets.Garradd was born in Australia and lived his early life in Sydney, Canberra, Oberon, and Tamworth. Astronomy has been an interest since his childhood, and he has built many telescopes himself, starting with a 20 cm (8") f/7 Newtonian while still in high school, graduating to making mirrors up to 46cm (18″) diameter and mounts up to the fork mount for the 46cm f/5.4 Newtonian, and German equatorial mounted 25cm (10") f/4.1 that he used for observing NEOs and comets.His initial profession was as an accountant, but he left that in 1984 to pursue astronomy and photography full-time. He lives with his wife Hether, off the power grid, using solar and wind power. He is a photographer, mountain bike rider, and solar- and wind-power enthusiast."@en }
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- Gordon_J._Garradd abstract "Gordon John Garradd (born 1959) is an Australian astronomer from Loomberah, New South Wales. He has discovered numerous asteroids and comets, including C/2009 P1, and four novae in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Garradd has worked for a number of astronomical institutions in the USA and Australia, most recently at Siding Spring Observatory on the Siding Spring Survey, part of the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey for near-Earth objects (2002 - Oct 2011). There are 16 comets and an asteroid named after Garradd. As of 15 June 2014, the International Astronomical Union lists him as the discoverer of 31 minor planets.Garradd was born in Australia and lived his early life in Sydney, Canberra, Oberon, and Tamworth. Astronomy has been an interest since his childhood, and he has built many telescopes himself, starting with a 20 cm (8") f/7 Newtonian while still in high school, graduating to making mirrors up to 46cm (18″) diameter and mounts up to the fork mount for the 46cm f/5.4 Newtonian, and German equatorial mounted 25cm (10") f/4.1 that he used for observing NEOs and comets.His initial profession was as an accountant, but he left that in 1984 to pursue astronomy and photography full-time. He lives with his wife Hether, off the power grid, using solar and wind power. He is a photographer, mountain bike rider, and solar- and wind-power enthusiast.".