3434 Hurless
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3434 Hurless is an asteroid
that was named for the late amateur astronomer Carolyn Hurless
, an American Association of Variable Star Observers
merit award winner, who made 79,000 observations from 1959 until her death on February 13, 1987.
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...
that was named for the late amateur astronomer Carolyn Hurless
Carolyn Hurless
Carolyn Hurless was a United States astronomer and an American Association of Variable Star Observers merit award winner, she made 79,000 observations 1959 until her death in 1987. The asteroid 3434 Hurless is named in her honour....
, an American Association of Variable Star Observers
American Association of Variable Star Observers
Since its founding in 1911, the American Association of Variable Star Observers has coordinated, collected, evaluated, analyzed, published, and archived variable star observations made largely by amateur astronomers and makes the records available to professional astronomers, researchers, and...
merit award winner, who made 79,000 observations from 1959 until her death on February 13, 1987.