- Robert Burnham Jr. (June 16, 1931 – March 20, 1993) was an American astronomer, best known for writing the classic three-volume Burnham’s Celestial Handbook. He discovered numerous asteroids, including the Mars crossing asteroid 3397 Leyla, and six comets.
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Isaac Newton