Tags: Asteroid.
84447 Jeffkanipe (provisional designation: 2002 TU240) is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered by the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking program near Haleakalā on the Hawaiian island of Maui on October 6 2002. It is named after Jeff Kanipe an American science writer who found a 1964 precovery image of this minor planet in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies.