It is an eccentric, stony asteroid and near-Earth object of the Amor group approximately 6 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 19 June 1950, by Albert Wilson and Åke Wallenquist at the Palomar Observatory in California. It was named after the Aztec deity Tezcatlipoca.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Tezcatlipoca

Albert George Wilson (July 28, 1918 – August 27, 2012) was an American astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Caltech in 1947.

He discovered 5 asteroids,including comet 107P/Wilson–Harrington / asteroid 4015 Wilson–Harrington.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_George_Wilson

Åke Anders Edvard Wallenquist (January 16, 1904 – April 8, 1994) was a Swedish astronomer. He worked at the Dutch Bosscha Observatory in Indonesia between 1928 and 1935, and became assistant professor at Uppsala's Kvistabergs Observatorium (Kvistaberg Observatory) in 1948. He worked originally on double stars, but it was the open star clusters and their properties that became his main area of research. Wallenquist was a very active member of both the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm and the Royal Swedish Society of Sciences in Uppsala. From the 1950s onwards, he was the leading writer of popular astronomy in Sweden. His books inspired generations of young people to become interested in astronomy.

Asteroid 2114 Wallenquist was named in his honour. He discovered 1 asteroid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85ke_Wallenquist

Distance from the Sun (au) : 1.60

Time: 23:35UT 2026-06-11 Exp. 12 x 5 sec.
Tel. 0.254m f/5.8 ST-10XME CCD @ -22°C 1.9"/pix
Odd Trondal Obs.code 238 (Uranium). Oslo Norway.