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--(13920) Montecorvino --discovery and notes:
Primary discovered1985 Aug 15from Anderson Mesa Station, Flagstaff, Arizona, USAby E. Bowell.Alternate designation(s):1985 PE1, 1979 WM8.Linked to prediscovery observations from 1979 Nov 24.Permanent number assigned 2000 Jul 21.
Named 2005 Jul 21 for the town of Montecorvino in Campania, Italy [MPC054562].
Companion discovered2020 Aug 13 by D. Pray, P. Pravec, M. Husarik, G. Cervak, M. Pikler, V. Chiorny, V. Benishek, and P. Sogorbusinglightcurve observations from Sugarloaf Mountain Observatory, South Deerfield, Massachusetts, USA; Skalnate Pleso Observatory, Slovakia; Chuguev Station, Kharkiv Observatory, Ukraine; Sopot Observatory, Serbia; Bastidan Observatory, France.Announced2020 Sep 23 [P20e].
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