Asteroids named after people called Diederik

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(9685) Korteweg

Diederik Johannes Korteweg (1848-1941), professor of mathematics at the University of Amsterdam, is known in particular for the Korteweg-de Vries equation on solitary waves and for editing the complete works of Christiaan Huygens. The name was suggested by W. A. Fröger.Discovered 24 September 1960 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T., Palomar

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