20430 Stout
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20430 Stout is a main-belt
Asteroid belt
The asteroid belt is the region of the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. It is occupied by numerous irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets...

 asteroid
Asteroid
Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...

 discovered on January 10, 1999 by Jr. W. R. Cooney and Susannah Lazar
Susannah Lazar
Susannah Lazar is a medical physicist and astronomer. Lazar, who is affiliated with the Highland Road Park Observatory, where she co-discovered asteroid 20430 Stout with Jr. W. R. Cooney at age 16. At the time she was a home school senior in Baton Rouge, Louisiana....

 at Baton Rouge. This body was named for a music professor at Louisiana State University who was fascinated by the mysteries of space being revealed in his time and was always researching new ideas, Earl Douglas Stout (1895?--1985) was a great-grandfather of the second discoverer, Susannah Lazar
Susannah Lazar
Susannah Lazar is a medical physicist and astronomer. Lazar, who is affiliated with the Highland Road Park Observatory, where she co-discovered asteroid 20430 Stout with Jr. W. R. Cooney at age 16. At the time she was a home school senior in Baton Rouge, Louisiana....

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