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11755 Paczynski (2691 P-L) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on 1960 Sept. 24 by C. J. van Houten and I. van Houten-Groeneveld on Palomar Schmidt plates taken by T. Gehrels. Polish-born astrophysicist Bohdan Paczyński (b. 1940) at Princeton University since 1982 is known for his theoretical work on gamma ray bursters—he was an early proponent of their being at cosmological distances—and for leading searches for gravitational lensing by low-mass stars and substellar objects.