Allan Sandage
Allan Rex Sandage ForMemRS (June 18, 1926 – November 13, 2010) was an American astronomer. He was Staff Member Emeritus with the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California. He is best known for determining the first reasonably accurate value for the Hubble constant and the age of the universe.
| (96155) 1973 HA | 27 April 1973 |
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