(5422) Hodgkin

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( 5422 ) Hodgkin is an asteroid of the outer main belt, discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Georgievna Karatschkina on 23 December 1982 at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj (IAU code 095). Sightings of the asteroid it had previously been several: on 4 December 1956 ( 1956 XS) at the Goethe Link Observatory, Indiana, on 15 September 1966 ( 1966 RK) at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj and on 16 September 1976 ( 1976 RH10 ) at Argentine Felix Aguilar Observatory.

After FORMING classification (Small Main -Belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey) were assumed in ( 5422 ) Hodgkin of a dark surface with a spectroscopic investigation of Gianluca Masi, Sergio Foglia and Richard P. Binzel, it might be so, roughly speaking, to act a C- asteroids.

The asteroid was named after Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin on 1 September 1993, a British biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their analysis of the structure of vitamin B12 with X-rays in 1964.

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