Tags: Asteroid.
12623 Tawaddud (provisional designation: 9544 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 October 17 1960. It is named after Tawaddud a fictional character in the One Thousand and One Nights.