Kenneth J. Lawrence

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Kenneth J. Lawrence (born 1964) is an American astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets.<ref name="springer" />

Credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 32 numbered asteroids between 1989 and 1994, he has also co-discovered 152P/Helin-Lawrence, a periodic comet from the Jupiter family.<ref name="jpldata-152P" /> He was also a participant in the Palomar Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey.<ref name="springer" />

The main-belt asteroid 4969 Lawrence, discovered by Eleanor Helin in 1986, is named in his honor.<ref name="springer" /> Naming citation was published on 14 July 1992 (Template:Small).<ref name="MPC-Circulars-Archive" />

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