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John Broughton (born 1952) is an Australian amateur astronomer. He is among the most prolific discoverers of minor planets worldwide, credited by the Minor Planet Center with more than a thousand minor planet discoveries made between 1997 and 2008. His observations are done at Reedy Creek Observatory () in Queensland, Australia.
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In 2002, Broughton was one of five astronomers who was awarded a "Gene Shoemaker NEO Grant" by the Planetary Society to support his work on near-Earth asteroids. The money was used to purchase a CCD camera.
The Flora asteroid 24105 Broughton was named in his honour.
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Discoveries and research
On 11 April 2004, Broughton discovered the Apollo asteroid (186844) 2004 GA1, a near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid. Broughton's finding is considered the first amateur discovery of a large, potentially hazardous NEO. In 2005 and 2006, he has also discovered two comets, now designated P/2005 T5 (Broughton) and C/2006 OF2 (Broughton).
He has produced two software applications for the drift-scan timing of asteroid occultation. These are called scantracker and scanalyser and are available online for free.