70207 Davidunlap | Discovered 1999 Sept. 4 by M. Collins and M. White at Anza. |
David Alexander Dunlap (1863-1924), born in Pembroke, Ontario, a mining magnate, philanthropist and amateur astronomer, was the namesake of the David Dunlap Observatory, location of Canada's largest optical telescope, and where the first black-hole candidate Cygnus X-1 was discovered and confirmed. |
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