George Robert Stetson has been an amateur astronomer since the 1930s. Bob and Estelle Marie Ives were married on 1945 July 1 and have been happily married since. They raised three sons, one electronic engineer and two Ph.D.s in science, and they have eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Discovered on 3-6-2000 in Mauna Kea by Stetson, P. B., Balam, D. D.