Asteroid Named After Two

Asteroid Named After Two. The asteroid (13580) de Saussure was named after Ferdinand de Saussure and his great-grandfather Horace-Bénédict de Saussure in 2010.…

Location: Geneva Observatory, Geneva, Switzerland

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Category: weird

The asteroid (13580) de Saussure was named after Ferdinand de Saussure and his great-grandfather Horace-Bénédict de Saussure in 2010. This is a rare instance of an asteroid being named after two people from the same family.

Source: Ferdinand de Saussure

Asteroid Named After Two — Geneva, Canton of Zurich

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