(3023) Heard

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( 3023 ) Heard is an asteroid of the main belt, which was discovered on 5 May 1981 by the American astronomer Edward LG Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory in Coconino County.

The asteroid was named after the Canadian astronomer John Frederick Heard (1907-1976), a professor of astronomy at the University of Toronto and Director of the David Dunlap Observatory fourth.

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