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Asteroid named after Spaceguard astronomer Jay Tate

A Welsh astronomer has had an asteroid named after him by the Spacewatch programme in the United States.
Jay Tate is director of the Spaceguard Centre near Kington, Powys, and has worked with the American scientists who discovered the asteroid.
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An asteroid has been named after the founder of the Spaceguard Centre in Knighton, because of his great service to space observation.
The asteroid that circles the Sun between Mars and Jupiter was discovered in 2000 by the Spacewatch project based at Kitt Peak Observatory in Arizona, and they recommended the name Jay Tate, founder of the Spaceguard Centre, to the International Astronomical Union who are in charge of naming asteroids.
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