(25142) Hopf

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( 25142 ) Hopf is an asteroid of the main belt, which was discovered on 26 September 1998 by Italian-American astronomer Paul G. Comba at Prescott Observatory (IAU code 684) in Arizona.

The asteroid was named after the German -Swiss mathematician Heinz Hopf (1894-1971) named, who was a pioneer of algebraic topology and since 1931 has held a professorship at the ETH Zurich.

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