Dennis K. Chesney


Dennis K. Chesney is an American astronomer and discoverer of minor planets born in Clovis, New Mexico, and credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 38 numbered minor planets during 1998–2000. As of 2016, his only named discovery is the outer main-belt asteroid 12583 Buckjean, which he named after his parents. It was they who had gavin him a pair of binoculars for Christmas, that ultimately led to his many asteroid discoveries. Naming citation was published on 20 March 2000.

List of discovered minor planets

15 February 1999
19 November 1999
1 October 1999
2 October 1999
18 October 1999
6 October 1999
10 December 1998
8 March 1999
12 March 1999
12 January 2000
27 January 1999
5 April 2000
10 May 1999
17 November 1999
25 January 1999