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23155 Judithblack (2000 CK86)
Discovered 2000 Feb. 4 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team in Socorro.
Judith Black (b. 1988) was awarded second place in the 2007 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for her electrical and mechanical engineering project. She attends the Sacred Heart Grammar School, Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland.

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The ancient Greeks named the stars after heroes. Now the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair is doing it too. That's how a lump of rock numbered 23155 became Asteroid Judithblack, in honour of a 19-year-old student who won a US $1500 prize for her scheme to improve the efficiency of an automated box-cutting machine in a factory near her home in Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland.

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23155 Judithblack is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1274.2979866 days (3.49 years).
The asteroid was discovered on February 4, 2000.

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