Claire Armstrong is a British amateur astronomer. She is married to
supernova
A supernova is a powerful and luminous explosion of a star. It has the plural form supernovae or supernovas, and is abbreviated SN or SNe. This transient astronomical event occurs during the last evolutionary stages of a massive star or when ...
hunter
Mark Armstrong, and both work from
Rolvenden
Rolvenden is a village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent, England. The village is centred on the A28 Ashford to Hastings road, south-west of Tenterden.
The settlement of Rolvenden Layne, south of Rolvenden, is also part of th ...
(IAU code 960), Kent, England. The asteroid
15967 Clairearmstrong was named in her honour by its discoverer, her husband.
15967 Clairearmstrong (1998 DN20)
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21st-century British astronomers
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