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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.]
Discovered 1999 May 9 by the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object Search at the Anderson Mesa Station.
Johns Hopkins (1795-1873) was a wealthy entrepreneur and philanthropist of Baltimore, Maryland. He is best known for his creation, under the terms of his will, of The Johns Hopkins University and its affiliated institutions, including the Applied Physics Laboratory.
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