Brian G. Marsden

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Brian Geoffrey Marsden
Born(1937-08-05)August 5, 1937
Cambridge, England
DiedNovember 18, 2010(2010-11-18) (aged 73)
Burlington, Massachusetts, US
Alma materNew College, Oxford
Yale University
Known forMinor Planet Center
Scientific career
ThesisThe motions of the Galilean satellites of Jupiter (1966)
Doctoral advisorDirk Brouwer

Brian Geoffrey Marsden (5 August 1937 – 18 November 2010) was a British astronomer and the longtime director of the Minor Planet Center (MPC) at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (director emeritus from 2006 to 2010).

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