Tags: Asteroid.
12159 Bettybiegel (provisional designation: 1142 T-2) is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered by Cornelis Johannes van Houten Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County California on September 29 1973. It is named after Rebekka A. Betty Biegel a European psychologist who committed suicide to avoid being sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp.