Named for the land of tiny people in Gulliver’s Travels, a novel by the English satirist and poet Jonathan Swift (1667–1745), this minor planet is one of the smallest discovered at this observatory. (M 9216)
Discovered on 22-9-1979 in Nauchnyj by Chernykh, N. S. | ||
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26-04-1963 | The shortest woman in the world Madge Bester was born. Asteroid Lilliputia conjunct Mars. |
01-01-1969 | One of the smallest men in the world, actor Verne Troyer was born. Asteroid Lilliputia conjunct Venus. |