Talk:List of minor planets: 77001–78000

Oakley?

One line of this article reads:

"77856 - 2001 RN63 September 11, 2001 Oakley"

Where "Oakley" is the discoverer.

Problem is, it points to a disambig page. What is the "Oakley" that is being referred to?

Kevyn 11:32, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Turns out (77856) 2001 RN₆₃ was actually discovered by Chris Wolfe and B. Ross (Brian Ross?) of Oakley Observatory (Director Richard P. Ditteon), Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre-Haute, Indiana. See http://www.rose-hulman.edu/Users/groups/Observatory/discovered%20ast.htm

Among the five other discoverers listed, I was able to identify two for sure, two more tentatively, and one I had no luck:

• Emanuel Bettelheim
• Susan Hare
• J. (Jerina E.?) Pillert
• M. (Monica?) Gavala
• M. Adams

Urhixidur 02:18, 2004 Jul 29 (UTC)