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Discovered 1994 Mar. 6 by Y. Shimizu and T. Urata at the Nachi-Katsuura Observatory.
Gaithersburg, Maryland, is a city to the north of Washington, D.C. Located at the agreed latitude of +39°08', one of the six stations of the International Latitude Service was established there in 1899, and it is now the home of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
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