Brian G. W. Manning


Brian George William Manning was an English astronomer who discovered 19 minor planets. He was born in 1926 in Birmingham. He constructed his first mirror from a piece of glass that a World War II bomb blew out of the roof of the factory where his father worked. He began as an engineering draughtsman but later became a metrologist at the University of Birmingham. In the late 1950s, he constructed an interference-controlled ruling machine in a home workshop, which was able to rule high-quality 3 by 2 inch gratings. In 1990, he received the H. E. Dall prize of the BAA.

Discoveries

Brian Manning is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 19 minor planets he made at Stakenbridge Observatory, near Kidderminster, England, between 1989 and 1997. All of his discovered minor planets are asteroids of the main-belt:
ObjectDateMPC
4751 Alicemanning17 January 1991
4506 Hendrie24 March 1990
7239 Mobberley4 October 1989
7465 Munkanber31 October 1989
7519 Paulcook31 October 1989
7573 Basfifty4 November 1989
6156 Dall12 January 1991
6191 Eades22 November 1989
8166 Buczynski12 January 1991
8545 McGee2 January 1994
8914 Nickjames25 December 1995
10381 Malinsmith3 September 1996
10515 Old Joe31 October 1989
10538 Torode11 November 1991
15347 Colinstuart26 October 1994
24728 Scagell11 November 1991
52633 Turvey30 November 1997
4 October 1989
25 December 1997