Robert George Harrington (December 3, 1904 – June 15, 1987[1]) was an American astronomer who worked at Palomar Observatory.
[2] He should not be confused with Robert Sutton Harrington, who was also an astronomer, but was born later and worked at the US Naval Observatory.
He discovered or co-discovered a number of comets, including periodic comets 43P/Wolf–Harrington, 51P/Harrington (discovered in 1953), 52P/Harrington–Abell (discovered jointly with George Ogden Abell in 1955) and the comet/asteroid 107P/Wilson–Harrington, which he and Albert Wilson discovered in 1949 and which had become an asteroid by 1988.
[3] Harrington discovered the dwarf galaxy Leo II and co-discovered the globular cluster Palomar 12 with Fritz Zwicky.
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