6235 Burney

6235 Burney
Discovery
Discovered by Seiji Ueda, Hiroshi Kaneda
Discovery date 1987

    6235 Burney[1] is a main-belt asteroid[2] that was discovered on November 14, 1987 by Seiji Ueda and Hiroshi Kaneda at Kushiro.[note 1] It is named after Venetia Phair (née Burney) (1918–2009) who, as a girl of eleven, first suggested the name of "Pluto" for the dwarf planet (which at the time was considered a planet).

    Notes

    1. ↑ The naming of the asteroid "Burney" was not suggested by the asteroid discoverers. It was designated by the Working Group for Small Bodies Nomenclature (SBN) of Division III (Planetary Systems Sciences) of the International Astronomical Union.

    References

    1. ↑ MPC 55720, Minor Planet Circulars, 2005 December 15.
    2. ↑ JPL Small-Body Database Browser

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