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Awards and Citations

By: Donald Machholz
On: October 22, 2021
  • 1978 Tuthill Comet Award Roger Tuthill for discovering Comet Machholz (1978L)
  • 1985 Tuthill Comet Award Roger Tuthill for discovering Comet Machholz (1986e)
  • 1986 Tuthill Comet Award Roger Tuthill for discovering Periodic Comet Machholz 1 (1986e)
  • 1994 Walter H. Haas Award Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers
  • 1995 Machholz was the recipient of the G. Bruce Blair Medal
  • 2000 Peggy Haas Service Award Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers Service to Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers
  • 2005 Edgar Wilson Award Harvard’s Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory for discovering Comet Machholz C/2004 Q2
  • 2010 Edgar Wilson Award Harvard’s Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory for discovering Comet Machholz C/2010 F4
  • 2017 Asteroid 245983 Machholz discovered by Kazimieras Černis was named in honor of Donald Machholz in November 2017
  • 2018 Edgar Wilson Award Harvard’s Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory for discovering Comet C/2018 V1 Machholz-Fujikawa-Iwamoto
  • 2021 Leslie C. Peltier Award Astronomical League for the visual discovery of 12 comets and contributions to astronomy
2021-10-22

Comet Hunters Astronomers Explorers

Don Machholz
Don Machholz, Rodney Austin, and Doug Berger in New Zealand for Halley’s Comet, April 1986
Don Machholz
Dave Seargent, Don Machholz, Patrick Stonehouse, Keith Tritton, Alan Hale, Doug Biesecker, George Alcock, Bill Liller, Michael Jäger, Kesao Takamizawa and Kazimieras Cernis
Media Comet Machholz Circa 2005
Don Machholz and Jean Mueller
My Parents, Doris Machholz and Donald Machholz, Sr. Circa 2014
IAU Comet Confirmation
Homemade 5″ binoculars, weighing about 150 lbs and 10-inch reflector on an English Yoke mount
Dr Brian Marsden with Don Machholz at the location from where I found my second comet in 1985 Circa 1991
Astronomy Meme 2019
Podcast Host Don Machholz Circa 2020
Talk at East Valley Astronomy Club – Arizona Circa 2019
Don Machholz
Comet Discoverer Card Circa 1983
Don Machholz Circa 2012
Don Machholz
Don Machholz Circa 1985
Testing StarChair 3000
Astronomy Conference Badges from the 1970’s and 1980’s
David Levy, Jean Mueller, Don Machholz, Alan Hale
Howard Brewington and Don Machholz Circa 2015

Stargazer Arizona Observatory

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