Asteroids named after people called Qasim

👶 Qasim as a baby name

(20601) Qasimafghan

Qasim Afghan (b. 1996) is a British scientist who studied cometary dust tails at University College London’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory in pursuit of his Ph.D. He researched dust grains’ size distributions, and discovered gaps in some comets’ dust tails linked to reduced activity levels.Discovered 8 September 1999 by LINEAR, Socorro

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