"Norwegian" Asteroid 7279 Hagfors
Taken by Odd Trondal on March 13, 2025 @ Oslo
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Named in honor of Tor Hagfors (b. 1930), in celebration of his 68th birthday and his retirement as director of the Max-Planck-Institut für Aeronomie. In the 1960s, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory

It was discovered 1985 11 07, at Anderson Mesa Observatory by Bowell, E.

https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?utf8=%E2%9C%93&object_id=Hagfors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_Hagfors

Time: 19:30UT 2025-03-13 Exp. 68 x 90 sec.
Telescope 0.254m f/5.9 ST-10XME CCD 0.94"/pix
Odd Trondal Obs.code 238 (Uranium). Oslo Norway.

Software used:TheSky6,CCDSoft 5, MSB Astroart 2.0, 8.0, Paint
Photographer's website:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/odd_trondal/
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