Tags: Asteroid.
12615 Mendesdeleon (provisional designation: 4626 P-L) 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 24 1960. It is named after Pablo Mendes de Leon a professor of air and space law at Leiden University.