2074 Shoemaker
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2074 Shoemaker is a Mars-crossing asteroid discovered on October 17, 1974 by Eleanor F. Helin
at Palomar
. It was named after Helin's fellow astronomer Gene Shoemaker.
Eleanor F. Helin
Eleanor Francis "Glo" Helin was an American astronomer. She was principal investigator of the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking program of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Some sources give her name as Eleanor Kay Helin...
at Palomar
Palomar Observatory
Palomar Observatory is a privately owned observatory located in San Diego County, California, southeast of Pasadena's Mount Wilson Observatory, in the Palomar Mountain Range. At approximately elevation, it is owned and operated by the California Institute of Technology...
. It was named after Helin's fellow astronomer Gene Shoemaker.