| Jim Scotti
is an American astronomer. Born in Bandon, he received his B.Sc. in
Astronomy from the University of Arizona in Tucson in 1983. Ever since
that time, he has worked on the Spacewatch project, which is one of a
number of projects that look for near-Earth asteroids. He wrote the
first automatic asteroid detection software for the project in 1984. He has discovered numerous asteroids, particularly near-Earth asteroids, and confirmed the discovery of the well known Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which impacted Jupiter in July 1994. He also discovered the periodic comets P/2000 Y3 Scotti and P/2001 X2 Scotti, which are not yet numbered as they have only been seen at one perihelion. The asteroid 3594 Scotti is named for him. Jim also an accomplished photographer and painter, as can be seen his full ALSJ bio. July 2008 |
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