2000 MC. Discovered 2000 June 18 by the JPL/MSSS NEAT at Haleakala.

Matthew Klimesh (1968– ) developed the efficient data compressor for archiving the voluminous NEAT data. He has been with the Communications Systems and Research Section at Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory since 1996. His research interests include data compression, rate-distortion theory and channel coding. (M 42677)