(3868) Mendoza

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( 3868 ) Mendoza is one of the main asteroid belt, which was discovered on September 24, 1960 as part of the Palomar - Leiden survey by the Dutch research team Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten - Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels.

The asteroid was named on the occasion of his 65th birthday after the Mexican astronomers Eugenio E. Mendoza V. (* 1928).

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