William Tutte (b.1918, d.2002), an expert in combinatorics, was a faculty member at the University of Toronto for 14 years and then joined the faculty of the University of Waterloo in 1962. He served as Librarian for the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada in 1959-1960.
Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke.
Orbit type: Main Belt Asteroid
Ref: MPC 49100
Name:
Tutte
Number:
14989
Designation:
1997 UB7
Disc. Date:
1997-10-25
Discoverer:
Spacewatch
Disc. Place:
Kitt Peak