(9492) Veltman

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( 9492 ) Veltman is an asteroid of the main belt, which was discovered by the Dutch astronomer Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten - Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory ( observatory code 675) in California on March 25, 1971.

The asteroid is (* 1931), named after the Dutch physicist Martinus JG Veltman, who was together with his colleague Gerardus ' t Hooft in 1999 with the Nobel Prize for Physics.

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