(29458) Pearson

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( 29458 ) Pearson is one of the main asteroid belt, which from the Italian-American astronomer Paul G. Comba at Prescott Observatory (IAU code 684) was discovered in Arizona on September 30, 1997.

Was named the asteroid after the British mathematician and a professor at University College London Karl Pearson (1857-1936), who contributed by his definition of the correlation coefficient ( Pearson correlation ) to the theory of statistics.

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