2104 Toronto

2104 Toronto (1963 PD) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 15, 1963 by Karl W. Kamper at the David Dunlap Observatory on plates taken at the Tautenburg Observatory by Sidney van den Bergh. It was the first minor planet to be discovered at an observatory in Canada and named after the University of Toronto which was celebrating its sesquicentennial at the time of its discovery and to note the important role that university had in developing Canadian astronomy.^[1]

References

^ Canadian Asteroids, The Royal Astronomy Society of Canada, July 22, 2008, http://www.rasc.ca/education/asteroids.shtml, retrieved 2009-01-19

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