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Jan 24, 1941 Portland, Oregon, United States 83 years old
American astronomer
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About James Whitney Young
- James Whitney Young (born January 24, 1941) is an American astronomer who worked in the field of asteroid research.
- After nearly 47 years with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at their Table Mountain Facility, Young retired July 16, 2009. He was a very prolific minor planet-observer of both physical properties and astrometric positions, and had discovered more than 250 asteroids since 2002, most of them from the main-belt, as well as several near-Earth objects, Mars-crossers and Jupiter trojans.
- He also discovered SN 2004eg, an extra-galactic supernova. The Florian asteroid 2874 Jim Young was named in his honor.
