Discovery date 29 September 1973 Discovered 29 September 1973 Orbits Sun Asteroid group Asteroid belt | Alternative names 4171 T-2; 4386 T-3 Observation arc 15422 days (42.22 yr) Absolute magnitude 15.1 | |
Discovered by van Houten, van Houten-Groeneveld & Gehrels Aphelion 2.65889 AU (397.764 Gm) People also search for Sun, 9511 Klingsor, 11767 Milne | ||
10979 Fristephenson is a small main belt asteroid named for F. Richard Stephenson, a British astronomer with important contributions to the History of astronomy and Earth's rotation at the University of Durham.
It was discovered on September 29, 1973, by Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld at Leiden University, analysing photographs made by Tom Gehrels with the 48" Schmidt telescope at Palomar Observatory.
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