Susannah Lazar

Minor planets discovered: 1 [1]
20430 Stout 10 January 1999 MPClist[A]
Co-discovery made with:
A W. R. Cooney Jr.

Susannah Lazar is an American medical physicist, amateur astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets.[1][2]

She is affiliated with the Highland Road Park Observatory, where she co-discovered asteroid 20430 Stout with Walter R. Cooney, Jr. at age 16, and named it after her late great-grandfather Earl Douglas Stout (c. 1895–1985).[3]

At the time she was a home school senior in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.[4]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference MPC-Discoverers was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference MPC-Stout was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference springer-Stout was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "National Young Astronomer Award, 2001 Winners". Astronomical League. 2001. Archived from the original on 15 May 2001. Retrieved 16 October 2011.