# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roy-a-tucker
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:47:12.803Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roy-a-tucker"
name: "Roy A. Tucker"
slug: "roy-a-tucker"
description: "Roy Anthony Tucker (December 11, 1951 – March 5, 2021) was an American astronomer best known for the co-discovery of near-Earth asteroid 99942 Apophis (formerly known as 2004 MN4) along with David J. Tholen and Fabrizio Bernardi of the University of Hawaiʻi. He was a prolific discoverer of minor planets, credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 702 numbered minor planets between 1996 and 2010. He also discovered two comets: 328P/LONEOS–Tucker and C/2004 Q1, a Jupiter-family and near-parabolic comet, respectively."
tagline: "American astronomer (1951–2021)"
gender: "male"
country:
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birthDate: "1951"
deathDate: "2021-03-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump