42487 Ångström

42487 Ångström is a main-belt asteroid, discovered on September 9, 1991 by F. Borngen and L. D. Schmadel at the Karl Schwarzschild Observatory.^[1] It is named after Anders Jonas Ångström, a cofounder of astronomical spectroscopy.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "JPL Small-Body Database Browser". http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi#top. Retrieved 2008-04-06.

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