Meteor Showers: An Annotated Catalog (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781461478966)

Observing, researching, and writing about comets has been an activity the author has participated in for most of his life, with over 2,000 observations of over 130 comets. He is the author of seven titles, and has been published in "Sky & Telescope," "Astronomy," "Icarus," "the Journal of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers" and more. His books include "Comets: A Descriptive Catalog" (Enslow Publishers, 1984), "Meteor Showers" (Enslow, 1988), and a six volume series title "Cometography" with Cambridge University Press. The 5th volume was published in 2010. In 2004, the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center announced that minor planet number 48300 was being given the name "Kronk" in honor of the author's extensive research for his Cometography series.