(12002) Suess

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( 12002 ) Suess is one of the main belt asteroid, which was discovered on March 19, 1996 by Petr Pravec and Lenka Šarounová on Ondřejov.

Naming

The Austrian geologist Franz Eduard Suess (also: Franz Eduard Suess, born October 7, 1867 in Vienna, † January 25, 1941 ibid ) was a professor at the Technical University of Prague and Vienna University. The name was suggested by H. Raab.