Discovered on 10 February 1999, 79912 is a dark Adeonian asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 6 km in diameter that was named after American Astrophyysicist Dirk Terrell by W.R. Cooney Jr. and Kandler who discovered it from The Baton Rouge at the Observatory and the naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 18 September 2005 (M.P.C. 54829).
Discovered on 10 February 1999, 79912 is a dark Adeonian asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 6 km in diameter that was named after American Astrophyysicist Dirk Terrell by W.R. Cooney Jr. and Kandler who discovered it from The Baton Rouge at the Observatory and the naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 18 September 2005 (M.P.C. 54829).