1998 SM58. Discovered 1998 Sept. 17 by the LONEOS at Anderson Mesa.
Johannes Benkhoff (1961– ) is a planetary scientist at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Berlin-Adlerhof. His research is in the field of modeling cometary nuclei, in preparation for space missions like Rosetta and Contour. He was instrumental in organizing the ACM 2002 conference. (M 46110)
The name was suggested by G. Hahn.
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