
Apr. 20, 2016
The US Minor Planet Center has announced the new name for the asteroid formerly known as 2009 RC26 to be (264045) Heinerklinkrad.
The asteroid, several kilometres across, was discovered on 13 September 2013 by Matthias Busch and Rainer Kreskin using ESA’s Optical Ground Station on Tenerife, Spain.
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