(1996) Adams

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( 1996), Adams (1961 UA, 1932 RM; 1961 TB2; 1969 TW2; 1971 BY1; 1973 S J3 ) is an asteroid of the main belt, which was discovered on 16 October 1961 at the Goethe Link Observatory as part of the Indiana Asteroid Program

The asteroid was named after John Couch Adams, a British mathematician and astronomer who calculated the position of the planet Neptune in the 1840s.

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