(52337) Compton

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( 52337 ) Compton is an asteroid of the inner main belt, the sincerity of the German astronomer Börngen and Lutz D. Schmadel on 2 September 1992 at the Thuringian State Observatory Tautenburg (IAU code 033) was discovered.

The asteroid was named at the suggestion of sincerity Börngen after the U.S. physicist and Nobel Prize winner Arthur Holly Compton, who in 1922 became known as the Compton effect discovered. Universally valid, the designation of ( 52337 ) Compton by publication on 6 August 2003 after Arthur Holly Compton and Karl Taylor Compton his older brother, a lunar crater in the northern hemisphere moon was in 1970 already been named. Lunar craters Compton.

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