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3467 Bernheim is an asteroid. It was discovered on September 26 1981 by Norman G. Thomas of Lowell Observatory and was named to honour Robert Burnham Jr. Thomas’ former co-worker at Lowell and the author of Burnham’s Celestial Handbook. A name similar to Burnham had already been used for 834 Burnhamia named after the unrelated 19th century astronomer Sherburne Wesley Burnham so Thomas chose the name Bernheim a name that Burnham told him had been used by his father’s parents in Germany.

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