Winston Rylo

Dr. Winston Rylo is an astrophysicist and the discoverer of the asteroid which bears his name, Rylo-7.

Early career
Rylo has studied and taught at an impressive list of universities, including the: California Institute of Technology, Gesellschaft für Science und Technologie, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, University of Cambridge.

Discovery of Rylo-7
At heart an astronomer, Rylo spends six months of each year on Space Station Costello studying deep space objects and, his pet area, the asteroid belt. He discovered Rylo-7, though, from his California Particle-Based Telescope. He began to issue alerts at an early stage but his somewhat ineffectual personality meant that these warnings were for the most part ignored.

Background

 * The character is named after Rylos, the fictional planet involved in an interstellar war in the 1984 film, The Last Starfighter.