61190 Johnschutt
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61190 Johnschutt is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on July 1, 2000 by Myke Collins and Minor White
at Anza
. It was named after the mountaineer John Schutt
.
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 July 1, 2000 by Myke Collins and Minor White
Minor White
Minor Martin White was an American photographer born in Minneapolis, Minnesota.White earned a degree in botany with a minor in English from the University of Minnesota in 1933. His first creative efforts were in poetry, as he took five years thereafter to complete a sequence of 100 sonnets while...
at Anza
Anza
Anza may refer to:Anza ,area in agadir city , in Morocco* Anza, California, a town in Riverside County* Anza, Imperial County, California* Anzá, Antioquia, a town in Colombia* Anza , a river in Piedmont, Italy...
. It was named after the mountaineer John Schutt
John Schutt
John Schutt is an American mountaineer and a member of the yearly Antarctic search for meteorites program. John has probably recovered more meteorites than any single person in history and has personally recovered more samples of Mars...
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