(2548) Leloir

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( 2548 ) Leloir is a main belt asteroid of the middle, which was on February 16, 1975, discovered at El Leoncito Observatory, which is located at the Felix Aguilar Observatory (IAU code 808) in the Argentine National Park El Leoncito. The observatory was used as an outpost for the Yale University and Columbia University to observe the southern sky, and since 1990 Observatorio Carlos Cesco means.

Unconfirmed sightings of the asteroid there had been several earlier: on the 1st and February 3, 1949 at the Observatoire Royal de Belgique in Uccle under the provisional designation 1949 CE as well as on 20 and 28 January 1966 the observatory at the purple mountain in Nanjing ( 1966 BM).

( 2548 ) Leloir was named after the Argentine biochemist Luis Federico Leloir ( 1906-1987 ) on 18 September 1986 in 1970 as the first South Americans the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded " for the discovery of sugar nucleotides and their role in the biosynthesis of carbohydrates ".

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