Cyril V. Jackson

+ Asteroids discovered: 72 1116 Catriona 5 April 1929 1186 Turnera 1 August 1929 1193 Africa 24 April 1931 1194 Aletta 13 May 1931 1195 Orangia 24 May 1931 1196 Sheba 21 May 1931 1197 Rhodesia 9 June 1931 1242 Zambesia 28 April 1932 1243 Pamela 7 May 1932 1244 Deira 25 May 1932 1245 Calvinia 26 May 1932 1246 Chaka 23 July 1932 1248 Jugurtha 1 September 1932 1264 Letaba 21 April 1933 1268 Libya 29 April 1930 1278 Kenya 15 June 1933 1279 Uganda 15 June 1933 1282 Utopia 17 August 1933 1318 Nerina 24 March 1934 1319 Disa 19 March 1934 1320 Impala 13 May 1934 1321 Majuba 7 May 1934 1323 Tugela 19 May 1934 1324 Knysna 15 June 1934 1325 Inanda 14 July 1934 1326 Losaka 14 July 1934 1327 Namaqua 7 September 1934 1349 Bechuana 13 June 1934 1354 Botha 3 April 1935 1355 Magoeba 30 April 1935 1356 Nyanza 3 May 1935 1357 Khama 2 July 1935 1358 Gaika 21 July 1935 1359 Prieska 22 July 1935 1360 Tarka 22 July 1935 1362 Griqua 31 July 1935 1367 Nongoma 3 July 1934 1368 Numidia 30 April 1935 1393 Sofala 25 May 1936 1394 Algoa 12 June 1936 1396 Outeniqua 9 August 1936 1397 Umtata 9 August 1936 1427 Ruvuma 16 May 1937 1428 Mombasa 5 July 1937 1429 Pemba 2 July 1937 1430 Somalia 5 July 1937 1431 Luanda 29 July 1937 1432 Ethiopia 1 August 1937 1456 Saldanha 2 July 1937 1467 Mashona 30 July 1938 1468 Zomba 23 July 1938 1474 Beira 20 August 1935 1490 Limpopo 14 June 1936 1505 Koranna 21 April 1939 1506 Xosa 15 May 1939 1595 TangaA 19 June 1930 1634 Ndola 19 August 1935 1638 Ruanda 3 May 1935 1641 Tana 25 July 1935 1676 Kariba 15 June 1939 1712 Angola 28 May 1935 1784 Benguella 30 June 1935 1816 Liberia 29 January 1936 1817 Katanga 20 June 1939 1948 Kampala 3 April 1935 1949 Messina 8 July 1936 2066 Palala 4 June 1934 2825 Crosby 19 September 1938 2865 Laurel 31 July 1935 3768 Monroe 5 September 1937 1937 NN 5 July 1937 7102 Neilbone 12 July 1936 (A) with H. E. Wood

Cyril V. Jackson (5 December 1903 – February 1988) was a South African astronomer, known for discovering 72 asteroids and a number of comets.

He was born in Ossett, Yorkshire in England; his father emigrated to South Africa in 1911. He earned his B.Sc. at the University of the Witwatersrand.

He worked at Union Observatory in Johannesburg from 1928 to 1947 (IAU code 078, previously known as Transvaal Observatory and later known as Republic Observatory).

He served with South African forces in the Second World War, and was mentioned in despatches.

After the war he was director of the Yale-Columbia Southern Observatory (YCSO) station in Johannesburg (IAU code 077), which had been established by Yale University in the 1920s.