Minor Planet 8900 Named for AAVSO

We have just been informed that the Minor Planet 8900 has been named "AAVSO" !

Here is how the citation reads:

"8900 AAVSO

Discovered 1995 Oct. 24 by Dennis di Cicco, Sudbury, MA.

One of the premier astronomical organizations, the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) was founded in 1911 by amateur William Tyler Olcott, following Harvard astronomer Edward C. Pickering's prescient vision of collaboration between amateur and professionals in the name of science."

Dennis is an AAVSO member, Senior Editor of Sky & Telescope magazine, and the proposer of the naming of the Minor Planet 8900.

Click on the image below to see minor planet "AAVSO" in action:

Thank you Dennis! Congratulations to all!