(26993) Littlewood

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( 26993 ) Littlewood is one of the main asteroid belt, which from the Italian-American astronomer Paul G. Comba at Prescott Observatory (IAU code 684) was discovered in Arizona on December 3, 1997.

The asteroid is named after the English mathematician John Edensor Littlewood (1885-1977), who spent most of his life a professor at Trinity College, Cambridge and coined along with Godfrey Harold Hardy, the English mathematics until the 1950s.

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