Electronic Telegram No. 5432
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
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THE EDGAR WILSON AWARDS 2015-2018
     The 2014 Edgar Wilson Awards were announced on IAUC 9287.  Unfortunately,
the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory has been very non-tranparent and
slow to produce the Edgar Wilson Awards for the discovery of comets by amateur
astronomers (cf. IAUC 6936) during the past decade.  The Central Bureau has
only recently been able to confirm that the awards for comets discovered
during July 2014-June 2018 did, in fact, go out some years ago.  These Awards
are listed below.
     The Edgar Wilson Awards for 2015 went to:  Terry Lovejoy, Australia, for
C/2014 Q2; Gennadii Borisov, Russia, for C/2014 Q3, C/2014 R1, and C/2015 D4;
Leonid Elenin, Russia, for P/2014 X1; Michal Kusiak, Michal Zolnowski, Rafal
Reszelewski, and Marcin Gedek, Poland, for C/2015 F2; Cristovao Jacques,
Brazil, for C/2015 F4; and Guoyou Sun and Xing Gao, China, for C/2015 F5.
     The Edgar Wilson Awards for 2016 went to:  Eduardo Pimentel, Brazil, for
P/2015 Q2; William Kwong Yeung, Canada, for C/2015 VL62; and Leonid Elenin,
Russia, for C/2015 X4.
     The Edgar Wilson Awards for 2017 went to:  Gennadii Borisov, Russia, for
C/2016 R3 and C/2017 E1; Joao Barros, Brazil, for C/2017 D2; Terry Lovejoy,
Australia, for C/2017 E4; Goran Gasparovic, Crotia, for P/2017 K3; and
Cristovao Jacques, Brazil, for C/2017 K6.
     One Edgar Wilson Award was given for 2018 to Joao Barros, Brazil, for
C/2018 E2.


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