12742 Delisle
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From the JPL Small-Body DataBase:

Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (1688-1768) was a French astronomer who went to Russia, where he founded the observatory of St. Petersburg. His brother, Guillaume Delisle (1675-1726), reformed French cartography by introducing a method for fixing positions by astronomical observation.

The symbol of this minor planet is a monogram of the letters J. D. over an astronomer's star-in-circle.

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