Biography:Susannah Lazar
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20430 Stout | 10 January 1999 | MPC list [A] |
Co-discovery made with: A W. R. Cooney Jr. |
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Susannah Lazar is an American medical physicist, amateur astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets.[1][2]
She is affiliated with the Highland Road Park Observatory, where she co-discovered asteroid 20430 Stout with Walter R. Cooney, Jr. at age 16, and named it after her late great-grandfather Earl Douglas Stout (c. 1895–1985).[3]
At the time she was a home school senior in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.[4]
See also
- List of minor planet discoverers
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Minor Planet Discoverers (by number)". Minor Planet Center. 14 November 2016. http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/MPDiscsNum.html. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
- ↑ "20430 Stout (1999 AC3)". Minor Planet Center. http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=20430. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
- ↑ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2007). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (20430) Stout. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 862. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_9622. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
- ↑ "National Young Astronomer Award, 2001 Winners". Astronomical League. 2001. http://www.astroleague.org/al/awards/nyaa/noya01wn.html. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
External links
- National Young Astronomer Award, The Astronomical League