The asteroid 2685 Masursky is a main-belt asteroid. It was discovered by Edward (Ted) Bowell in 1981. It was named after Harold Masursky (1923–1990) a planetary geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey Flagstaff who worked on numerous space missions.Little was known about Masursky until the Cassini space probe en route to Jupiter and Saturn flew past it on 23 January 2000.
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