John Darlington Landstreet (1940- ) is on the faculty at the University of Western Ontario. He helped discover magnetic fields in white dwarf stars and developed Balmer-line polarimetry for detection of magnetic fields in middle-main sequence stars.
Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke.
Orbit type: Main Belt Asteroid
Reference: MPC 49099
Name:
Landstreet
Number:
14274
Designation:
2000 BL21
Disc. Date:
2000-01-29
Discoverer:
Spacewatch
Disc. Place:
Kitt Peak