9261 Peggythomson (1953 TD1) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 8 1953 by the Indiana Asteroid Program at Goethe Link Observatory Brooklyn Indiana. The name honors Peggy Y. Thomson who was responsible for a major gift to Indiana University from a charitable trust that allowed the Daniel Kirkwood professorship to be fully endowed as a chair of astronomy.
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