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Benfranklin

Number: 5102
Provisore: 1986 RD1
Discovery: Discovered by 2.09.1986 by A. Mrkos on Klet observatory
Reference: MPC 34621 (4.05.1999)
Orbit: https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=5102;old=0;orb=1;cov=0;log=0;cad=0#orb

Named in memory of the American scientist, philosopher and statesman Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), who was one of the brightest and most creative scholars of his time. He contributed in many areas of natural science: electricity, aurorae, earthquakes and atmospheric storms. Franklin proposed the two kinds of electric charge, positive and negative, and his famous experiments in 1752 with kites flown into the storm clouds lead to the invention of the lightning rod. Name suggested by J. Tichá and M. Šolc.