2362 Mark Twain (1976 SH2) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1976 by N. Chernykh at Nauchnyj. This asteroid is named after a famous American writer and author Mark Twain.
Famous quotes containing the words mark twain, mark and/or twain:
“As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick;...”
—Bible: New Testament, Mark 2:17.
“I reverently believe that the Maker who made us all makes everything in New England but the weather. I don’t know who makes that, but I think it must be raw apprentices in the weather-clerk’s factory who experiment and learn how.... In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four-and-twenty hours.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)