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Thread #131630   Message #2972576
Posted By: Desert Dancer
25-Aug-10 - 11:29 AM
Thread Name: Obit: Jack Horkheimer, Star Gazer
Subject: RE: Obit: Jack Horkheimer, Star Gazer
Wikipedia:

11409 Horkheimer (1999 FD9) is a main-belt asteroid discovered March 19, 1999 by the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object Search at the Anderson Mesa Station. It is named in honor of Jack F. Horkheimer (b. 1938 d. 2010), former executive director of the Miami Space-Transit Planetarium, who is best known as the creator and host of the television program Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer.

~ Becky in Tucson
where there are a lot of astronomers