144633 Georgecarroll
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144633 Georgecarroll is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on March 21, 2004 at the Stony Ridge Observatory
. It was named after George A. Carroll, the designer of the telescope at Stony Ridge.
Asteroid belt
The asteroid belt is the region of the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. It is occupied by numerous irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets...
asteroid
Asteroid
Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...
discovered on March 21, 2004 at the Stony Ridge Observatory
Stony Ridge Observatory
Stony Ridge Observatory is an astronomical observatory built by and for amateur astronomers in the mountains of Los Angeles County, California in 1963. When installed, its Newtonian-Cassegrain likely ranked as the largest amateur telescope in the United States. Asteroids 10168 Stony Ridge and...
. It was named after George A. Carroll, the designer of the telescope at Stony Ridge.