206241 Duboisとは意味・読み方・使い方

206241 Dubois (provisional designation 2002 WM28) is a main belt asteroid. It was discovered by the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking team on November 24, 2002 at Palomar Observatory. The asteroid was named after Dutch anatomist, surgeon and paleontologist Marie Eugène François Thomas Dubois (1858–1940) was the "founding father" of palaeoanthropology. His dedicated search culminated in 1891 with the discovery of the first Homo erectus fossils in a bank of the Solo river near Trinil, Java. The name was suggested by M. Langbroek.