Asteroids named after people called Lutz
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Named in honor of Lutz D. Schmadel, Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, computer of orbits and ephemerides of minor planets, and Editor of “Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts”. The lost objects (1206) Numerowia and (1370) Hella were recovered as the result of his calculations.Discovered 27 April 1977 by H.-E. Schuster, La Silla
Lutz J. Hecht (b. 1962) is a German mineralogist at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin engaged in impact and micrometeorite studies. He led and coordinated a search for the Ribbeck meteorite near Berlin, an observed fall in January 2024.Discovered 16 July 1999 by LINEAR, Socorro
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