Susannah Lazar

Susannah Lazar is a medical physicist and astronomer. Lazar, who is affiliated with the Highland Road Park Observatory, where she co-discovered asteroid 20430 Stout with Walter R. Cooney, Jr. at age 16. She named one of her discoveries after her late great-grandfather Earl Douglas Stout (1895?--1985).[1] At the time she was a home school senior in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser 20430 Stout". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. 1999.
  2. ↑ "National Young Astronomer Award, 2001 Winners". Astronomical League. 2001. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
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