Daniel Green

Daniel W. E. Green is an astronomer and solar-system researcher who has been at EPS since 2010, when he moved over from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics where he had been for thirty years.

He has been Director of the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams since 2000; the CBAT dates back to 1882 and has been on the Harvard campus since 1965 as an international center for announcing new discoveries of comets, novae, meteor showers, etc.  (Harvard College Observatory had hosted a western-hemisphere astronomical announcement bureau from 1883 until 1965.) 

Green is a team leader working with telescopes in China to image comets on a regular basis, and a team member using Canadian telescopes.  He has been involved with archiving comet observations from observers around the world and analyzing cometary data at Harvard for the past 45 years. 

Green has long been a senior member of the Small-Bodies Nomenclature committee of the International Astronomical Union, and as such is involved in discussion regarding, and voting for, names of minor planets and comets of the solar system.  

Green holds a PhD in physics and astronomy from the University of Durham (UK).