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25617 Thomasnesch (provisional designation: 2000 AN32) is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project in Socorro New Mexico on January 3 2000. It is named after Thomas Nesch a German high school student whose electrical and mechanical engineering project won first place at the 2009 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Thomas is currently an engineering student at St Edmund’s College The University of Cambridge.