Asteroids named after people called York
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(35976) Yorktown
Yorktown, a town in Virginia on the York River leading into the Chesapeake Bay, was the site of a Sept.-Oct. 1781 siege of the British army by American and French troops, with support by the French navy. The outcome proved conclusive to the American War of Independence. The name was suggested by R. P. Binzel.Discovered 25 June 1999 by LONEOS, Anderson Mesa