# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dennis-k-chesney
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:02:07.349Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dennis-k-chesney"
name: "Dennis K. Chesney"
slug: "dennis-k-chesney"
description: "Dennis K. Chesney is an American astronomer and discoverer of minor planets born in Clovis, New Mexico, and credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 38 numbered minor planets during 1998–2000. As of 2016, his only named discovery is the outer main-belt asteroid 12583 Buckjean, which he named after his parents. It was they who had gavin him a pair of binoculars for Christmas, that ultimately led to his many asteroid discoveries. Naming citation was published on 20 March 2000."
tagline: "American astronomer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1948"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.98
  momentum:             15
  historical:           8.068466666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Dennis K. Chesney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%83._%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%86%D9%8A"
    title: "دنيس ك. تشيسني"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%83._%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%86%D9%89"
    title: "دنيس ك. تشيسنى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_K._Chesney"
    title: "Dennis K. Chesney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_K._Chesney"
    title: "Dennis K. Chesney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_K._Chesney"
    title: "Dennis K. Chesney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_K._Chesney"
    title: "Dennis K. Chesney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_K._Chesney"
    title: "Dennis K. Chesney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_K._Chesney"
    title: "Dennis K. Chesney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q530402"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump