12159 Bettybiegel

12159 Bettybiegel (provisional designation: 1142 T-2) is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, and Tom Gehrels at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, on September 29, 1973. It is named after Rebekka A. "Betty" Biegel, a European psychologist who committed suicide to avoid being sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp.

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