13274 Roygross
13274 Roygross (1998 QX37) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 17, 1998 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro.
The asteroid was named for Roy James Gross (b. 1987), a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), a middle school science competition, for his botany and zoology project. At the time he attended Penndale Middle School in Lansdale, Pennsylvania. He is currently studying mechanical engineering at Drexel University and is working on the humanoid robot HUBO.
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(13273) 1998 QW37•13274 Roygross• (13275) 1998 QT39
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