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I was away in WA for a couple of weeks and missed this, but yes, some time ago Dave Seargent and I discussed naming an asteroid for Terry for his amazing contributions to comet observing over many years. David had ideas for the citation and I had a (rather small) handfull asteroids discovered from home that were numbered and ready to be named (compared with who knows how many from work!) and I thought that it would be a bit more personal to use one of my hard earned discoveries, rather than the much easier ones from work, for the purpose.
As has been mentioned, discoverers have the right to propose names for their asteoroids, but not for themselves!
Gordon
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