Brian George William Manning (14 May 1926 – 10 November 2011)Hurst 2012, p. 118. 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.EBSCOhost Connection
Discoveries Brian Manning is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 19 minor planets he made at Stakenbridge Observatory (494), near Kidderminster, England, between 1989 and 1997. All of his discovered minor planets are asteroids of the main-belt:
+ Discoveries by Brian G. W. Manning (i) Object Date MPC 4751 Alicemanning 17 January 1991 4506 Hendrie 24 March 1990 7239 Mobberley 4 October 1989 7465 Munkanber 31 October 1989 7519 Paulcook 31 October 1989 7573 Basfifty 4 November 1989 6156 Dall 12 January 1991 6191 Eades 22 November 1989 8166 Buczynski 12 January 1991 8545 McGee 2 January 1994 8914 Nickjames 25 December 1995 10381 Malinsmith 3 September 1996 10515 Old Joe 31 October 1989 10538 Torode 11 November 1991 15347 Colinstuart 26 October 1994 24728 Scagell 11 November 1991 52633 Turvey 30 November 1997 4 October 1989 25 December 1997
References
Hurst, Guy M. 'Brian George William Manning' in the Journal of the British Astronomical Association, April 2012, Volume 22, Number 2.
External links IAUC 3104, periodic comet Chernykh (1977l),