Named in honor of Bruce A. Goldberg, scientist and astronomer at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the USAF Phillips Laboratory, as well as friend and colleague of the discoverer. He received his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia and has conducted research in modeling and spectroscopy of Io and comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner, on adaptive optics and as guest observer at a variety of telescopes throughout the world for over twenty years. Named endorsed by R. Bambery, K. Lawrence and his many friends at JPL.

Since 2001, David Joseph Schade (b. 1953) has served as leader for the NRC Canadian Astronomy Data Centre which has contributed numerous innovations to data management for, inter alia, HST, CFHT, Gemini, JCMT and MOST observatories and to the Virtual Observatory.

Orbit type: Mars-crosser

Reference: MPC 79913

John Barrie Hutchings (b. 1941) uses observations from the X-ray to the radio regimes to probe intrinsically-luminous stars, X-ray binaries, neutron stars and stellar-mass black holes, and active galactic nuclei and quasars.