Gil Esquerdo (b.1976), a research assistant at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, spent 2002 as a research assistant for the Near-Earth-Asteroid Physical Study project at the University of Western Ontario. A keen observer, Esquerdo also presents the night sky to guests at a bed and breakfast inn in Arizona. In 2018, Esquerdo works as an operator of the 1.5m telescope on Mount Hopkins, part of the Fred L. Whipple Observatory.
Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke.

Orbit type: Main Belt Asteroid 

Reference: MPC 49099