(6401) Roentgen

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( 6401 ) Roentgen is an asteroid of the main belt, which was discovered on 15 April 1991 at Mount Palomar by the U.S. team of astronomers Carolyn Jean Spellman Shoemaker, Eugene Shoemaker and David H. Levy.

The name of the asteroid was chosen in honor of the German physicist and Nobel laureate Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen.

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