Tags: Asteroid.
52266 Van Flandern (provisional designation: 1986 AD) is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered by Carolyn S. Shoemaker and Eugene Merle Shoemaker at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County California on January 10 1986. The asteroid remained un-named until 2009 when this citation was entered:Tom Van Flandern (1940-2009) predicted and comprehensively analyzed lunar occultations at the U.S. Naval Observatory in the 1970s.