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Asteroid named in honour of Dufault

The week after Michele Dufault, a Saybrook College senior and physics and astronomy major, died in a tragic laboratory accident last April, a group of faculty and students who knew her best met to discuss ways to preserve her memory. Now they have ensured she will be remembered forever by having an asteroid named in her honour.
Asteroid 15338 will now be known as "15338 Dufault" and has been recorded in the July 15 edition of "Minor Planet Circulars," the official publication of minor bodies in the solar system produced by the International Astronomical Union.
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Asteroid named in honour of Michele Dufault (1988-2011)

Asteroid (15338) Dufault = 1994 AZ4 is official, published in the 2011 July 15 batch of Minor Planet Circulars.  It appears as follows on MPC 75548:

(15338) Dufault = 1994 AZ4

      Discovered 1994 Jan. 5 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak.

Named in honour of Michele Dufault (1988-2011), an outstanding astronomy and physics student at Yale College who died in an accident just weeks before graduation.  Michele was passionate about science and about encouraging others, especially young women, to pursue science careers.

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