Minor Planet 15017 Cuppy |
Asteroid 15017 Cuppy (1998 SS25) Discovered 22 September 1998 by Dr. Edward Bowell, Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search (LONEOS), Anderson Mesa Station. Named September 2003 for Will Cuppy (1884-1949), American humorist and journalist. Photographed 1 July 2004 by Donn Starkey, DeKalb Observatory, Auburn, IN, USA, 41o 18' 37.8" N, 85o 04' 21.6" W, using an RC Optical Systems 16-inch (0.41m) f/8.4 Ritchey-Chretien reflector and an ST-10XME CCD imaging camera. 5 stacked 180-sec. R Band exposures Observed magnitude and filter: 19.1R Photo used by permission. Posted 8 July 2004. |