Shaun M. Hughes was an Australian astronomer at Siding Spring Observatory. He co-discovered the periodic comet 130P/McNaught-Hughes. The asteroid 1878 Hughes was likely named after another astronomer, David Hughes, of the University of Sheffield. Shaun Hughes left Siding Spring Observatory in 1992 for a fellowship at the California Institute of Technology, where he joined one of the Hubble Space Telescope Key Project teams, to measure the expansion rate of the universe, … Wikipedia
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