10914 Tucker
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10914 Tucker is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on December 31, 1997 by P. G. Comba at Prescott
. It was named for Roy A. Tucker
, an instrumentalist at Kitt Peak National Observatory
.
Asteroid belt
The asteroid belt is the region of the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. It is occupied by numerous irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets...
asteroid
Asteroid
Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...
discovered on December 31, 1997 by P. G. Comba at Prescott
Prescott Observatory
Prescott Observatory was built by Paul G. Comba and is now owned and operated by Matt Francis. The observatory is located south of Prescott Arizona and is dedicated to the study of cosmology. Refurbished in 2011, the observatory houses a PlaneWave CDK 24 inch telescope with two Takahashi wide...
. It was named for Roy A. Tucker
Roy A. Tucker
Roy A. Tucker is an American astronomer. He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids, identifying at least 404 and co-discovering one, between 1996 and 2009.Tucker was raised in Memphis, Tennessee...
, an instrumentalist at Kitt Peak National Observatory
Kitt Peak National Observatory
The Kitt Peak National Observatory is a United States astronomical observatory located on 2,096 m Kitt Peak of the Quinlan Mountains in the Arizona-Sonoran Desert on the Tohono O'odham Nation, southwest of Tucson...
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