1951 Lick is a rare-type asteroid and Mars-crosser, approximately 5.6 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 26 July 1949, by Carl Wirtanen at Lick Observatory on the summit of Mount Hamilton, California, and named after James Lick.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1951_Lick

Carl Alvar Wirtanen (November 11, 1910 – March 7, 1990) was an American astronomer who worked at the Lick Observatory. He was of Finnish ancestry.
Wirtanen was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin. After visiting the observatory in Kenosha with his violin teacher at age 12, he started grinding mirrors. Wirtanen joined the staff at Lick Observatory in 1941. During the Second World War, he took a job as a physicist at the California Institute of Technology and worked on ballistics at the Naval Ordnance Test Station in the Mojave Desert. He returned to Lick Observatory after the war, remaining there until his retirement in 1978 Wirtanen discovered periodic comet 46P/Wirtanen, as well as eight asteroids

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_A._Wirtanen

James Lick (August 25, 1796 – October 1, 1876) was an American real estate investor, carpenter, piano builder, land baron, and patron of the sciences. The wealthiest man in California at the time of his death, Lick left the majority of his estate to social and scientific causes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lick

Distance from the Sun (au) : 1,31

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Tel. 0.254m f/5.8 ST-10XME CCD @ -21°C 1.9"/pix
Odd Trondal Obs.code 238 (Uranium). Oslo Norway.