7167 Laupheim is a main-belt asteroid which was discovered in 1985 at the Palomar Observatory by Carolyn S. Shoemaker and Eugene Shoemaker. After visiting the public observatory in Laupheim southern Germany in 1998 Carolyn Shoemaker was so impressed with the work done at this institution that 1985 TD3 was named Laupheim on 4 May 1999 in honor of Robert Clausen and his team.
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