3868 Mendoza

3868 Mendoza (4575 P-L) is a main-belt binary asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory. In 2009, a moon was discovered, 2.01±0.18 km in diameter, orbiting the asteroid in a little more than a day. It was named in honor of Eugenio Mendoza, astronomer, expert in photometry and spectroscopy, member of the IAU and teacher at several Mexican universities.

3868 Mendoza

3868 Mendoza (4575 P-L) is a main-belt binary asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory. In 2009, a moon was discovered, 2.01±0.18 km in diameter, orbiting the asteroid in a little more than a day. It was named in honor of Eugenio Mendoza, astronomer, expert in photometry and spectroscopy, member of the IAU and teacher at several Mexican universities.