Chairman of the Department of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago, Lawrence Grossman (b.1946) has spent his career studying calcium-aluminum inclusions (CAIs) in carbonaceous chondrites. He was among the first to propose that these minerals condensed from gases in the early solar system.
Orbit type: Main Belt Asteroid
Reference: MPC 41381
Name:
Grossman
Number:
4565
Designation:
1981 EZ17
Disc. Date:
1981-03-02
Discoverer:
Bus, S.J.
Disc. Place:
Siding Spring