Kem H. Cook (1949– ), of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is a founding member of the Massive Compact Halo Objects (MACHO) Project, which used a refurbished, 120-year-old telescope (The Great Melbourne Telescope) to survey the Magellanic Clouds for gravitational microlensing by baryonic, halo dark matter. (M 43045) _ _.
Discovered on 25-4-1998 in Anderson Mesa by LONEOS