Susannah Lazar

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Minor planets discovered: 1[1]
20430 Stout10 January 1999MPC list[A]
Co-discovery made with:
A W. R. Cooney Jr.

Susannah Lazar is an American medical physicist, amateur astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets.[1][2]

She is affiliated with the Highland Road Park Observatory, where she co-discovered asteroid 20430 Stout with Walter R. Cooney, Jr. at age 16, and named it after her late great-grandfather Earl Douglas Stout (c. 1895–1985).[3]

At the time she was a home school senior in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.[4]

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