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Result based on less than full coverage, so that the period may be wrong by 30 percent or so. Published Reference List: [Waszczak, A.; Chang, C.-K.; Ofeck, E.O.; Laher, F.; et al. (2015) Astron. J. 150, A75.] [Durech, J.; Hanus, J.; Ali-Lagoa, V. (2018) Astron. Astrophys. 617, A57.]
Discovered 1985 Oct. 15 by E. Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory.
Named in memory of Malcolm Kennedy (1944-1997), tireless and popular secretary of the Astronomical Society of Glasgow. Born and raised in New Zealand, Kennedy became a civil engineer in Scotland. He was an energetic member of the Free Church in Cumbernauld, near Glasgow. As secretary of the ASG, he ensured that meetings ran smoothly, enlivening them with wordplay and puns.
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