(4050) Mebailey = 1976 SF

Discovered 1976 September 20 by C.-I. Lagerkvist and H. Rickman at Kvistaberg.

Named in honor of Mark E. Bailey, a British astronomer at the University of Manchester well known for his work on the origin of comets, the dynamics of the Oort cloud and the capture of comets into short-period orbits.


Asteroids discovered by Uppsala astronomers

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