17063 Papaloizou
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17063 Papaloizou is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on April 15, 1999 by John Papaloizou
at Anderson Mesa Station.
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 April 15, 1999 by John Papaloizou
John Papaloizou
John Christopher Baillie Papaloizou is a British theoretical physicist. Papaloizou is a professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. He works on the theory of accretion disks, with particular application to the formation of planets. He...
at Anderson Mesa Station.