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John Ellard Gore was regarded as one of the leading astronomers of his day and was one of the founding members of the British Astronomical Association. He was baptised in St Mary's Church of Ireland, Athlone on the 12th July 1845 having been born on June 1st. He was educated privately before entering Trinity College Dublin where he obtained a licentiate in civil engineering with distinction in 1865. 
In 2009 the International Astronomical Union approved the naming of nineteen new craters on the Moon - one of these was named Gore - a fitting tribute to this Athlone born astronomer who died a century ago in 1910. 
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Gore is a lunar impact crater located on the lunar near side near the northern pole. 
The crater was adopted and named after John Ellard Gore by the IAU in 2009. 
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Title: John Ellard Gore: of immensity and minuteness
Authors: Jeremy Shears

John Ellard Gore FRAS, MRIA (1845-1910) was an Irish amateur astronomer and prolific author of popular astronomy books. His main observational interest was variable stars, of which he discovered several, and he served as the first Director of the BAA Variable Star Section. He was also interested in binary stars, leading him to calculate orbital elements of many such systems. He demonstrated that the companion of Sirius, thought by many to be a dark body, was in fact self luminous. In doing so he provided the first indication of the immense density of what later became known as white dwarfs.

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