Gary Hug


Gary Hug is an American amateur astronomer and a prolific discoverer of minor planets, who, along with Graham E. Bell, operates the Farpoint Observatory and Sandlot Observatory in Kansas, United States.
He is the co-discoverer of comet 178P/Hug-Bell and was awarded twice a Gene Shoemaker NEO Grant for improved near-Earth object searches in 2009 and 2018, respectively. Hug also represents the Northeast Kansas Amateur Astronomer's League.

List of discovered minor planets

15992 Cynthia18 December 1998
18055 Fernhildebrandt11 October 1999 
2 September 1999 
23989 Farpoint3 September 1999 
24265 Banthonytwarog13 December 1999 
24305 Darrellparnell26 December 1999 
24308 Cowenco29 December 1999 
25594 Kessler29 December 1999 
29 December 1999 
28 December 1999 
31664 Randiiwessen8 May 1999
9 July 2000
19 July 2000
33747 Clingan14 August 1999
20 October 2001
22 November 2000
27 December 1999 
17 June 1999 
6 September 1999 
6 September 1999 
12 November 1999 
6 October 1999 
14 November 1999 
13 December 1999 
28 December 1999 

15 August 1999
15 August 1999
20 August 1999 
1 October 1999
29 October 1999 
11 November 1999 
12 November 1999 
27 December 1999 
22 September 2001
7 March 2000
28 April 2001
31 July 2001
12 August 2001
12 August 2001
13 February 1999 
2 February 2001
13 February 2002
13 September 1999 
10 November 1999 
1 December 2000
3 March 2002
10 July 2000
16 March 2002
14 February 1999 
5 October 1999 

2 February 2001
12 August 1999
31 December 1999 
10 September 2001
25 September 2001
14 October 2002
14 October 2002
2 September 2001
16 January 2000 
12 May 2001
11 February 2001
19 August 2001
21 December 2000
20 March 2001
18 April 2001
22 September 2001
30 December 2003
5 June 2000
12 May 2001
9 November 2001
28 November 2003
16 July 2006 
9 September 2001
9 September 1999 
20 March 2001

21 January 2002
17 July 2007
3 August 2007
7 August 2007
30 October 2008
28 September 2005
22 December 2008
27 November 2000
5 November 2001
7 January 2007
1 October 2007
18 July 2009
10 October 2002
27 February 2007
10 March 2007
3 December 2007
18 October 2008
31 July 2009
22 September 2001
7 December 2001
13 October 2002
27 January 2008
22 August 2009
14 June 2008
1 July 2008

9 November 2007
17 November 2007
17 December 2007
30 January 2008
1 September 2007
15 March 2009
17 March 2009
20 March 2009
8 April 2010
31 December 2002
3 September 2007
20 April 2007
5 November 2007
3 January 2008
12 August 2009
21 August 2009
25 August 2009
1 September 2007
7 November 2007
30 January 2008
5 April 2008
25 August 2008
24 June 2009
13 November 1999 
27 August 2001

21 February 2007
29 May 2009
16 March 2002
3 January 2009
10 March 2007
19 August 2010
11 August 2008
11 February 2002
9 July 2007
3 October 2008
22 November 2009
21 December 2000
30 January 2008
18 September 2008
7 October 2010
3 October 2007
11 October 2007
6 November 2005
18 January 2005
21 January 2009
5 April 2010
2 November 2007
18 November 2008
7 April 2010
7 August 2007