Robert D. Stephens


Robert D. Stephens is an American amateur astronomer and a prolific photometrist of minor planets at the Center for Solar System Studies, Rancho Cucamonga in California, United States.

Career

By profession, Stephens is a Certified Public Accountant in California since 1978, and has co-founded the accounting firm Fox & Stephens Inc. in 1988.
Member of the American Astronomical Society and former president of the Riverside Astronomical Society, Stephens became active in studying minor planets in 1999. Since then, he has obtained and published hundreds of rotational light-curves of asteroids from photometric observations taken at the CS3–Trojan Station of the Center for Solar System Studies, Landers, in the Southern California desert, where he collaborates with astronomers Daniel Coley and Brian D. Warner. He is president of the astronomical research institution MoreData! Inc., as well as treasurer of the Society for Astronomical Sciences and the American Association of Variable Star Observers.

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