Beginning with his demonstration of the excited rotational state of 1P/Halley, Nalin H. Samarasinha (1958– ), of the National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, has carried out many studies of the dynamical evolution of cometary nuclei and the related dynamical processes of dust in cometary comae. (M 46109) _ _.
Discovered on 24-6-1998 in Anderson Mesa by LONEOS