Named for Charles Mason (1730–1787) and Jeremiah Dixon (1773–1779), British astronomers who observed the 1761 transit of Venus from the Cape of Good Hope. Between 1763 and 1767 they surveyed the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland mdash; the Mason-Dixon Line. (M 10847) _ _.
Discovered on 24-1-1982 in Anderson Mesa by Bowell, E.