7639 Offutt
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7639 Offutt is an outer main-belt asteroid
discovered on February 21, 1985 at Oak Ridge Observatory
, and named in honor of American astronomer
Warren B. Offutt
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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 February 21, 1985 at Oak Ridge Observatory
Oak Ridge Observatory
The Oak Ridge Observatory, also known as the George R. Agassiz Station, is located at 42 Pinnacle Road, Harvard, Massachusetts, and was formerly operated by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics as a facility of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory .The observatory was established in...
, and named in honor of American astronomer
Astronomer
An astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as planets, stars and galaxies.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using...
Warren B. Offutt
Warren B. Offutt
Warren B. Offutt is an American astronomer.He has discovered a number of asteroids. The International Astronomical Union named minor planet 7639 Offutt after him just before his 70th birthday in 1998....
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