18610 Arthurdent is a small main belt asteroid discovered by Felix Hormuth of Starkenburg Observatory on February 7 1998. It is named after Arthur Dent the bewildered hero of Douglas Adams’s radio play and book The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.The naming of this asteroid was announced by the Minor Planet Center in Minor Planet Circular MPC 42677 on May 9 2001. Two days later on May 11 2001 Adams died of a heart attack in Santa Barbara California.
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