3927 Feliciaplatt
3927 Feliciaplatt (1981 JA2) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 5, 1981 by Shoemaker, C. at Palomar.
Origin of the name
As part of a class taught by Gene Shoemaker at Caltech, I was lucky to discover two asteroids: (3237) Victorplatt (named after my father) and (3259) Brownlee. I named 3237, but I was too slow in naming 3259, so Gene and Carolyn Shoemaker named it after a fellow asteroid researcher, Don Brownlee. They very generously allowed me to name an asteroid they discovered in return: (3927) Feliciaplatt (named after my mother).
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- 3926 Ramirez
- 3927 Feliciaplatt
- 3928 Randa
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