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Discovery and designation
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| Discovered by | Jr. W. R. Cooney |
| Discovery site | Baton Rouge |
| Discovery date | January 10, 1999 |
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Designations
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| MPC designation | 20430 |
| Alternate name(s) | 1999 AC3 |
| Epoch May 14, 2008 | |
| Ap | 3.1799792 |
| Peri | 2.1117302 |
| Eccentricity | 0.2018722 |
| Orbital period | 1571.9814223 |
| Mean anomaly | 166.50068 |
| Inclination | 14.76911 |
| Longitude of ascending node | 132.29490 |
| Argument of peri | 213.19923 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.2 |
20430 Stout (1999 AC3) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 10, 1999 by Jr. W. R. Cooney and Susannah Lazar at Baton Rouge. This body was named for a music professor at Louisiana State University who was fascinated by the mysteries of space being revealed in his time and was always researching new ideas, Earl Douglas Stout (1895?--1985) was a great-grandfather of the second discoverer, Susannah Lazar.