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Among the first eight years' worth of Wilson Awards (1999–2006), 17 awards went to visual discoverers of comets, 10 awards went to CCD discoverers, and one award went to a photographic discoverer of a comet. (Here, an "award" is taken to mean one full award, meaning that some teams of two people—in
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Each year the award is divided between amateur astronomers who during that year, using amateur equipment, discover one or more new comets which are then officially named after them. The annual total award is of the order of US$ 20,000 but fluctuates from year to year. In any year when there are no
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Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory has awarded the recipients, after 2014 the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams could confirm in 2024 that the awards for the comet discoveries in the period July 2014-June 2018 had been given.
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Georges Attard, France (P/2021 U3, C/2021 X1, C/2022 J1)
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694:"Electronic Telegram No. 5432: THE EDGAR WILSON AWARDS 2015-2018"
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Syogo Utsunomiya, Minami-Oguni, Aso, Kumamoto, Japan (C/2000 W1)
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Syogo Utsunomiya, Minami-Oguni, Aso, Kumamoto, Japan (C/2002 F1)
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Michael Jaeger, Weissenkirchen i.d. Wachau, Austria (P/1998 U3)
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Gary Hug and Graham E. Bell, Eskridge, Kansas, U.S. (P/1999 X1)
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Korado Korlevic and Mario Juric, Visnjan, Croatia (P/1999 DN3)
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Artyom O. Novichonok and Vladimir V. Gerke, Russia (P/2011 R3)
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Gennadii Borisov, Russia (C/2014 Q3, C/2014 R1, and C/2015 D4)
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Albert F. A. L. Jones, Stoke, Nelson, New Zealand (C/2000 W1)
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Vance Avery Petriew, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada (P/2001 Q2)
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Tetuo Kudo, Nishi Goshi, Kikuchi, Kumamoto, Japan (C/2002 X5)
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Robert E. Holmes Jr., Charleston, Illinois, U.S. (C/2008 N1)
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Shigeki Murakami, Matsunoyama, Niigata, Japan (C/2002 E2)
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John Broughton, Reedy Creek, Qld., Australia (C/2006 OF2)
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Steven Lee, Coonabarabran, N.S.W., Australia (C/1999 H1)
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Peter Williams, Heathcote, N.S.W., Australia (C/1998 P1)
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Daqing Zhang, Kaifeng, Henan province, China (C/2002 C1)
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William Kwong Yeung, Benson, Arizona, U.S. (P/2002 BV)
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302:Gennadii Borisov, Russia (C/2013 V2)
238:Eduardo Pimentel, Brazil (P/2015 Q2)
163:Eduardo Pimentel, Brazil (P/2020 G1)
719:"The Edgar Wilson Award Recipients"
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342:Paulo Holvorcem, Brazil (C/2013 D1)
299:Paolo Holvorcem, Brazil (C/2013 D1)
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