Susannah Lazar

Minor planets discovered: 1 [1]
20430 Stout 10 January 1999 MPC list [A]
Co-discovery made with:
A W. R. Cooney Jr.

Susannah Lazar is an American medical physicist, amateur astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets.[1][2]

She is affiliated with the Highland Road Park Observatory, where she co-discovered asteroid 20430 Stout with Walter R. Cooney, Jr. at age 16, and named it after her late great-grandfather Earl Douglas Stout (c. 1895–1985).[3]

At the time she was a home school senior in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.[4]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Minor Planet Discoverers (by number)". Minor Planet Center. 14 November 2016. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
  2. ↑ "20430 Stout (1999 AC3)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
  3. ↑ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2007). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (20430) Stout. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 862. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
  4. ↑ "National Young Astronomer Award, 2001 Winners". Astronomical League. 2001. Retrieved 16 October 2011.

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