McKay

(1991 JR2 )
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Discovery Chart

8.5.1991 00:00 Siding Spring 149e3 31s16 observations 1


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Named for Christopher P. McKay (b. 1954), space scientist and exobiologist at NASA-Ames Research Center. McKay has made numerous seminal contributions to planetary science and the search for zones of life in the solar system, with a special interest in Mars, Titan, comets and microbial life in hostile environments on the earth. Name suggested and citation prepared by D. I. Steel.


Discovered on 8-5-1991 in Siding Spring by McNaught, R. H.

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