Bragg


Asteroid 11150, Bragg, was discovered on December 21, 1997 by Frank B. Zoltowski at Woomera, South Australia, Australia. It has a period of 3 years, 303 days.

It was named for Australian-born British physicist William Lawrence Bragg (1890-1971), who did groundbreaking work on X-ray crystallography and shared the 1915 Nobel Prize in physics with his father, William Henry (WH) Bragg.

WL Bragg


The meaning of asteroid Bragg seems to be what its name might suggest: according to Henk Middleraad: bragging. It might also have to do with X-ray crystallography.



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