Schelte John "Bobby" Bus (born 1956) is an American astronomer and discoverer of minor planets at the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Hawaiʻi and deputy director of NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) at the Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii, United States.
[2] With Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Richard Binzel, Bus further added to the knowledge about main-belt asteroids in a spectroscopic survey published in 2002.
[5] As of 2017, Bus is an Astronomer at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy and deputy director of NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility IRTF.
[3] Asteroid 3254 Bus, which was discovered in 1982 by Edward Bowell, was named in his honor.
Bus was also the discoverer of asteroids 5020 Asimov and 4923 Clarke, named after two science fiction writers (see 5020 and 4923).