21711 Wilfredwong
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21711 Wilfredwong is an minor planet
discovered on September 7, 1999 by MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR
) program. It lies in the Ceres belt of the solar system
.
It was named in honor of Wilfred Wong (b. 1988), who was awarded second place in the 2006 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his engineering project, Polycaprolactone-Chitosan Nanocomposite Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering and Wound Healing.
Minor planet
An asteroid group or minor-planet group is a population of minor planets that have a share broadly similar orbits. Members are generally unrelated to each other, unlike in an asteroid family, which often results from the break-up of a single asteroid...
discovered on September 7, 1999 by MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR
Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research
The Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project is a cooperative project between the United States Air Force, NASA, and MIT's Lincoln Laboratory for the systematic discovery and tracking of near-Earth asteroids. LINEAR was responsible for the majority of asteroid detections since 1998 until...
) program. It lies in the Ceres belt of the solar system
Solar System
The Solar System consists of the Sun and the astronomical objects gravitationally bound in orbit around it, all of which formed from the collapse of a giant molecular cloud approximately 4.6 billion years ago. The vast majority of the system's mass is in the Sun...
.
It was named in honor of Wilfred Wong (b. 1988), who was awarded second place in the 2006 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his engineering project, Polycaprolactone-Chitosan Nanocomposite Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering and Wound Healing.