10937 Ferris

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Asteroid 10937 Ferris, designated 1998 QW54, was discovered August 27, 1998 by the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search (LONEOS) at the Anderson Mesa station near Flagstaff, Arizona.

It is named in honor of William D. Ferris, an astronomy enthusiast who observed with the LONEOS project from 1998 to 2000.[citation needed]

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