(5040) Rabinowitz

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( 5040 ) Rabinowitz is an asteroid of the main belt, which was discovered on September 15, 1972 by Dutch astronomer Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory (IAU code 675) in California.

The asteroid was named after the American astronomer David Lincoln Rabinowitz ( born 1960 ), mainly dealing with the Kuiper Belt and the objects in the outer solar system.

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