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--(8373) Stephengould --discovery and notes:
Primary discovered1992 Jan 01from Palomar Observatory, California, USAby C. S. Shoemaker and E. M. Shoemaker.Alternate designation(s):1992 AB.Permanent number assigned 1998 Mar 13.
Named 1999 Nov 23 for Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) [MPC036946].
Companion discovered2010 Jan 16 by Yu. N. Krugly, R. Behrend, P. Pravec, K. Hornoch, P. Kusnirak, A. Galad, P. Veres, R. Crippa, F. Manzini, M. Audejean, L. Bernasconi, N. Gaftonyuk, B. D. Warner, I. Molotov, and L. Eleninusinglightcurve observations from Kharkiv National University, Ukraine; Geneva Observatory; Ondrejov Observatory, Czech Republic; Modra Observatory, Slovakia; Fondazione Observatorio Astronomico di Tradate, Tradate, Italy; Stazione Astronomica di Sozzago, Italy; Chinon, France; Les Engarouines, France; Simeiz Observatory; Palmer Divide Observatory, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA; Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Moscow.Announced2010 Mar 04 [K10b].
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